Fetch websites hosted on Remote IIS server using C#

Question

Hi,
I want to get all the websites that are hosted on a remote server. I have the Server IP, username and password of the remote server and I need to retrieve all the sites that are hosted on the server. How can I achieve this in C# ?
Regards,
Pradeep R

Answer 1

The easy way is to use WMI to talk with IIS.  Alternatively you can use the IIS API but WMI is easier.  Refer to MSDN for documentation on the IIS WMI Provider.
Here's some starter
code in VBScript.  Here's the equivalent via WMI Code Creator.
using System;
using System.Management;
using System.Windows.Forms;
namespace WMISample
public class MyWMIQuery
public static void Main()
try
ManagementObjectSearcher searcher =
new ManagementObjectSearcher("root\\WebAdministration",
"SELECT * FROM Site");
foreach (ManagementObject queryObj in searcher.Get())
Console.WriteLine("-----------------------------------");
Console.WriteLine("Site instance");
Console.WriteLine("-----------------------------------");
Console.WriteLine("Name: {0}", queryObj["Name"]);
catch (ManagementException e)
MessageBox.Show("An error occurred while querying for WMI data: " + e.Message);
Note that WMI must be turned on for the IIS server and the user needs appropriate rights.
Michael Taylor
http://blogs.msmvps.com/p3net