How to detect IIS version using C#?
Update: I meant from a winapp (actually the scenario is developing a custom installer that wants to check the version of the installed IIS to call the appropriate api’s)
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How to detect IIS version using C#?
Update: I meant from a winapp (actually the scenario is developing a custom installer that wants to check the version of the installed IIS to call the appropriate api’s)
You can get this information from the
SERVER_SOFTWAREvariable. It will return the following:Microsoft-IIS/5.0 (Windows 2000)Microsoft-IIS/5.1 (Windows XP)Microsoft-IIS/6.0 (Windows 2003 Server)etc.
If you’re using ASP.NET, you can get this string via
EDIT: It seems that you will have to query the registry to get this information. Take a look at this page to see how.