How to get website's physical path on local IIS server? (from a desktop app)

Question

How to get the path that usually looks like %SystemDrive%\\inetpub\\wwwroot ?

I guess it\'s something to do with Microsoft.Web.Administration.Se

Answer 1

Server.MapPath

or

Request Object Paths Available

RequestObject Property

PhysicalApplicationPath -Returns local file system path of the virtual root for this app. c:\inetpub\wwwroot\webstore

PhysicalPath -Returns the local file system path to the current script or path. c:\inetpub\wwwroot\webstore\admin\paths.aspx

Updates

To access iis from the windows application go through this article : Modification of IIS Metabase in C# ( For IIs 6.0,5.0)