how to get the application pool name for a specific website IIS6 programmatically? C#

Question

how to get the application pool name for a specific website IIS 6 programmatic using C#

EDIT: I already used the methods of DirectoryServices namespace but the appl

Answer 1

In brief, there's 2 ways of doing this that spring to mind.

The less sophisticated way is knowing that, IIS6's settings are stored in the MetaBase which is just an Xml file:

C:\WINDOWS\system32\inetsrv\MetaBase.xml

You can just use Linq2Xml and parse the Xml looking for the sites name or Id, The AppPoolId attribute contains the name of the AppPool

The proper way is to use System.DirectoryServices