Disable IIS App pool. Possible?

Question

Just like disabling windows service, is there a way to disable app pool in IIS? This is just to prevent apppool restarting on server restart.

Answer 1

In IIS Manager there is the "Start Automatically" setting in the (General) area in Advanced Settings.

Also see How to config application pool in IIS 7.5 automatically re-start when it was stopped? for an alternative way to do the same thing.

Answer 2

This C# example works for me

string appPoolPath = "IIS://localhost/W3SVC/AppPools/myapppool";
            var appPool = new DirectoryEntry(appPoolPath);
            appPool.Invoke("Start", null);
            appPool.Invoke("Stop", null);
            appPool.Invoke("Recycle", null);`