Restarting IIS programmatically

Question

I need to restart IIS from a C#/.NET application. This seems like a trivial issue, but I haven\'t had success thus far, and none of the answers from this question have worke

Answer 1

Alternatively (and cleaner) you could just use the ServiceController class to subsequently stop and start the iis service.
You'll probably still need elevated privileges though... Impersonation might solve this; "impersonate an account with higher privileges." for restarting the service.

A good example of how to start/stop (and restart) a windows service can be found here: Start, Stop and Restart Windows Service (C#)