Question

…or am I stuck rolling my own ‘XML chopping’ functions. I’d like to create a small tasktray app so I can quickly re-point a Virual Directory to one of several of folders on my harddisk.

Bit of background:

I have 3 different svn branches of our code base on my dev machine.

Current Production Branch    ( C:\Projects\....\branches\Prod\ ) Next Release Canidate Branch ( C:\Projects\....\branches\RCX\ ) Trunk                        ( C:\Projects\....\trunk\ ) 

Our app integrates with a 3rd party CMS which I’ve installed at

http://localhost/cms/ 

In order to work our app has to live at the same root directory. so:

http://localhost/app/ 

Depending on the branch I’m working on, I’m re-pointing the /app/ directory to one of the 3 paths listed above by going into IIS Manager. Just thought it’d be handy to have a quick-app to do it for me.

Answer 1

Ok…this isn’t a tray app but you can run it from the command line. Just change the physical paths as necessary:

using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using System.DirectoryServices;  namespace Swapper {   class Program   {     static void Main(string[] args)     {       using (DirectoryEntry appRoot =                 new DirectoryEntry('IIS://Localhost/W3SVC/1/root/app'))       {         switch (args[0].ToLower())         {           case 'prod':             appRoot.Properties['Path'].Value = @'e:\app\prod';             appRoot.CommitChanges();             break;            case 'rcx':             appRoot.Properties['Path'].Value = @'e:\app\rcx';             appRoot.CommitChanges();             break;            case 'trunk':             appRoot.Properties['Path'].Value = @'e:\app\trunk';             appRoot.CommitChanges();             break;            default:             Console.WriteLine('Don't know');             break;         }       }     }   } } 

Then run as in:

C:\>swapper prod C:\>swapper rcx 

etc