How to programmatically get sites list and virtual dirs in IIS 7?

Question

Does anybody know how to programmatically get the sites list and virtual dirs in IIS 7?

Answer 1

One important caveat to using the Microsoft.Web.Administration assembly is the code has to be running on a machine that has IIS7 installed.

When I was developing a system to load IIS7 sites into a webpage on my windows XP machine I discovered this limitation. The API is great, I just wished I could have used it.

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