How do I determine if WCF 3 and ASP.NET is registered with IIS 7 programmatically

Question

I've been asked to write a tool that detects all the requirements and tells the user whether the machine meets all of the requirements or not to be able install the different software solutions the company I'm interning at developed.

I need to check if WCF3 and ASP.NET are registered to IIS correctly, The code is written in C#. I need a bulletproof way to know if it's correctly registered or not.

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:27

Check this thread: Programatically create a web site in IIS using C# and set port number if you're using IIS 7 you can programmatically access all registered sites. Keeping in mind the thread I provided discusses how to add a site programmatically, you should be able to use the "sites" collection to access all registered services and search for those by name or by other criteria (you'd have to check what properties are available).

ServerManager iisManager = new ServerManager();
iisManager.Sites; //Use this collection to find the services you need to know exist

It's also important to note that if you're interested in the application pool as well you'd access them like so:

ServerManager serverManager = new ServerManager();
ApplicationPoolCollection applicationPoolCollection = serverManager.ApplicationPools;

Finally, your application will need to run under an account with the appropriate permissions to read this information.

I'll try this and check back later, I need to find the appropriate properties to check. — Zak Soliman, Nov 29 '12 at 16:32
This worked, I just had to find the proper way of fetching a list of modules. — Zak Soliman, Nov 29 '12 at 21:04

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 29 '12 at 16:12

use ServiceHostFactory, After the factory constructs the ServiceHost

protected override ServiceHost CreateServiceHost(Type serviceType, Uri[] baseAddresses)
{
  var hostname = base.CreateServiceHost(serviceType, baseAddresses);
  hostname.Extensions.Add(new CustomConfigurer());
  return hostname;
}

or you can use HttpContext

private string ConnectionString()
        {
            if (HttpContext.Current!=null)
                return ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["MyDatabase"].ConnectionString;
            else
                return GetConnectionStringFromRegistry();
        }

How do I determine if WCF 3 and ASP.NET is registered with IIS 7 programmatically

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