Application c# compatible with IIS 6 and IIS 7

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I have a class that creates a Virtual Director and some other stuff with IIS 6.0, now I did the same with the ServerManager class to do the same with IIS 7x. We need to be compatible with both IIS in the same utility. (without using the compatibility with IIS 6)
The problem is that in IIS 6 machines the Microsoft.Web.Administration assembly does not exist. I know it's not possible to have it because the dll only comes with IIS 7.

What's the best way to do this?

Thanks!..

Posted 21-Feb-11 13:09pm

luisnike19

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Nish Nishant · Answer 1 · 2011-02-21T14:02:00

I don't see the problem here. Your first version targets IIS 6, correct? So that one will not be using the IIS 7 specific classes anyway. So why don't you just use that same code with IIS 7 too?

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In response to your comment.

If the two versions of IIS require two different assemblies/classes to manage programmatically, then there's no way you can expect a single piece of code to handle this.

One approach to simplify your design would be to have two separate DLLs, one for IIS6 and one for IIS7. Have both implement a common interface. And your main application will always access these DLLs via this common interface, and at runtime, you decide to load either one of these DLLs depending on what version of IIS is installed on the target machine.