I am writing a web application deployment verification tool and I need to check the physical folder structures of Web Applicatons and Virtual Folders.
How can this be done in C#? OR more generally, interact with IIS through C# code?
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I would strongly suggest using the Microsoft.Web.Administration dll for superb admin features with IIS.
ServerManager serverManager = new ServerManager();
// get the site (e.g. default)
Site site = serverManager.Sites.FirstOrDefault(s => s.Name == "Default Web Site");
// get the application that you are interested in
Application myApp = site.Applications["/Dev1"];
// get the physical path of the virtual directory
Console.WriteLine(myApp.VirtualDirectories[0].PhysicalPath);
Gives:
F:\Dev\Branches\Dev1
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I found that IIS can auto-generate the script code to get certain configuration values. In C#, Shell script and javascript. But I am still trying to figure out how to get the physical path of the virtual folder and web app. If anyone found it, could you tell me? thanks. – smwikipedia Mar 28 '11 at 01:43
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You can do this kind of thing using WMI:
Administering IIS programatically.
And you can use WMI from C# (google for "WMI C#").
So, yes, this is possible.
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Thanks for reminding me of the good old WMI. It's meant for *management*. I almost forgot it. ;) – smwikipedia Mar 25 '11 at 11:28
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@smwiki - yes for *management*, but for configuration prefer to use `System.DirectoryServices` on IIS6 and `Microsoft.Web.Administration` on IIS7. – Kev Mar 31 '11 at 15:57
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Take a look at the HttpRequest object. You can get the current URL using HttpContext.Current.Request.Url.
If you wanted to check that a virtual IIS folder existed you could try performing a Server.MapPath call to the relative URL you expect to exist (again you'll find this in the HttpContext object) and if the mapping is not successful you could then assume that a specific subfolder as specified by your relative path does not exist.
