Programmatically creating an IIS7 site

Create a new solution and add a reference to C:\Windows\System32\InetServ\Microsoft.Web.Administration.dll. Paste the following code and you've got yourself a website on port 82 using the default application pool. In IIS it's named MyCoolWebsite.

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Linq;

using System.Text;

using Microsoft.Web.Administration;

namespace TestApp

{

  class Program

  {

    static void Main(string[] args)

    {

      string siteName = "MyCoolWebsite";

      string applicationPoolName = "DefaultAppPool";

      string virtualDirectoryPath = "/";

      string virtualDirectoryPhysicalPath = "C:\\temp\\";

      string ipAddress = "*";

      string tcpPort = "81";

      string hostHeader = "";

      string applicationPath = "/";

      long highestId = 1;

      using (ServerManager mgr = new ServerManager())

      {

        Site site = mgr.Sites[siteName];

        if (site != null)

          return; // Site bestaat al

        ApplicationPool appPool = mgr.ApplicationPools[applicationPoolName];

        if (appPool == null)

          throw new Exception(String.Format("Application Pool: {0} does not exist.", applicationPoolName));

        foreach (Site mysite in mgr.Sites)

        {

          if (mysite.Id > highestId)

            highestId = mysite.Id;

        }

        highestId++;

        site = mgr.Sites.CreateElement();

        site.SetAttributeValue("name", siteName);

        site.Id = highestId;

        site.Bindings.Clear();

        string bind = ipAddress + ":" + tcpPort + ":" + hostHeader;

        Binding binding = site.Bindings.CreateElement();

        binding.Protocol = "http";

        binding.BindingInformation = bind;

        site.Bindings.Add(binding);

        //site.Bindings.Add(bind, "http");

        Application app = site.Applications.CreateElement();

        app.Path = applicationPath;

        app.ApplicationPoolName = applicationPoolName;

        VirtualDirectory vdir = app.VirtualDirectories.CreateElement();

        vdir.Path = virtualDirectoryPath;

        vdir.PhysicalPath = virtualDirectoryPhysicalPath;

        app.VirtualDirectories.Add(vdir);

        site.Applications.Add(app);

        mgr.Sites.Add(site);

        mgr.CommitChanges();

      }

    }

  }

}