How can I look up IIS site id in C#?

Question

I am writing an installer class for my web service. In many cases when I use WMI (e.g. when creating virtual directories) I have to know the siteId to provide the correct m

Answer 1

private static string FindWebSiteByName(string serverName, string webSiteName)
{
    DirectoryEntry w3svc = new DirectoryEntry("IIS://" + serverName + "/W3SVC");
    foreach (DirectoryEntry site in w3svc.Children)
    {
        if (site.SchemaClassName == "IIsWebServer"
            && site.Properties["ServerComment"] != null
            && site.Properties["ServerComment"].Value != null
            && string.Equals(webSiteName, site.Properties["ServerComment"].Value.ToString(), StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
        {
            return site.Name;
        }
    }

    return null;
}