IIS application pool defines a set of web applications and their corresponding worker processes to provide a convenient way to administer a set of web sites and applications. Sometime developers need to programmatically start, stop or recycle the IIS application pool. In this post, we will learn how to programmatically call the directory service to invoke the start, stop and recycle operation on IIS server. Like all websites present in IIS server, the application pool also has a specific URL. It uses "IIS:" protocol to communicate with the server. The URL consists of SERVER_NAME, a generic path and the name of the application pool. Here is the structure of the application pool URL (don't forget to change the SERVER_NAME and APP_POOL_NAME): private const string APPLICATION_POOL_URL = "IIS://SERVER_NAME/W3SVC/AppPools/APP_POOL_NAME"; To load the pool, you need to use the class "DirectoryEntry" present under the namespace...


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