LINQ with IIS sites and web Applications

Objective 

In this article, we will see how to work with LINQ against IIS.

Before applying LINQ against IIS sites and application pool, we need to set up the environment. Follow the bellows steps to do this. 

Step 1

Download  Microsoft.Web.Administration.dll and save to a particular directory. I am saving it in D drive of local storage. 

Step 2

Create a new console project and add Microsoft.Web.Administration dll as service reference. To add a reference right click on the project and click add service reference. Then browse to the directory where, we have saved the downloaded dll of the first step. 

 

Step 3

Add the namespace 

 

Now we are ready to perform the query, 

Display all the sites 

 

Output

 

Display all the sites which is started 

 

Output

 

Display Site running in a particular application pool

 

In above query, we are performing nested query.  We are just comparing if application pool name is as same as given name or not.

Output 

 

Conclusion 

In above article, I just discussed three basic LINQ query against IIS. I hope this post was useful. Thanks for reading. Happy Coding.