Get IIS site name from for an ASP.NET website

Question

In my ASP.NET web app I\'d like to look up the name it was given when it was created in IIS, which is unique to the server. I\'d not interested in the domain name for the web si

Answer 1

You are looking for ServerManager (Microsoft.Web.Administration) which provides read and write access to the IIS 7.0 configuration system.

Iterate through Microsoft.Web.Administration.SiteCollection, get a reference to your website using the Site Object and read the value of the Name property.

// Snippet        
using (ServerManager serverManager = new ServerManager()) { 

var sites = serverManager.Sites; 
foreach (Site site in sites) { 
         Console.WriteLine(site.Name); // This will return the WebSite name
}

You can also use LINQ to query the ServerManager.Sites collection (see example below)

// Start all stopped WebSites using the power of Linq :)
var sites = (from site in serverManager.Sites 
            where site.State == ObjectState.Stopped 
            orderby site.Name 
            select site); 

        foreach (Site site in sites) { 
            site.Start(); 
        } 

Note : Microsoft.Web.Administration works only with IIS7.

For IIS6 you can use both ADSI and WMI to do this, but I suggest you to go for WMI which is faster than ADSI. If using WMI, have a look at WMI Code Creator 1.0 (Free / Developed by Microsoft). It will generate the code for you.

HTH