Figuring out the IIS Version for a given OS in .NET Code

Posted by: Rick Strahls WebLog, on 19 Sep 2011 | View original | Bookmarked: 0 time(s)

Here's an odd requirement: I need to figure out what version of IIS is available on a given machine in order to take specific configuration actions when installing an IIS based application. I build several configuration tools for application configuration and installation and depending on which version of IIS is available on IIS different configuration paths are taken. For example, when dealing with XP machine you can't set up an Application Pool for an application because XP (IIS 5.1) didn't support...

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