How to run IIS Express as a process started via a Windows Service

Question

I am trying to distribute IIS Express with my application. IIS Express will serve external web requests on port 80.

I have no problems running IIS Express as well as

Answer 1

To run IIS 7.5 as administrator, just change your code slightly to:

Process process = Process.Start(new ProcessStartInfo()
{
    FileName = IIS_EXPRESS,
    Arguments = arguments.ToString(),
    RedirectStandardOutput = true,
    UseShellExecute = true,
    CreateNoWindow = true,
    Verb = "runas"
});

This will also enable you to run your site on port 80.