<p>Just looking for the relevant documentation.  An example is not necessary, but would be appreciated.  </p>

<p>We have a situation where we are having to create 100s of virtual directories manually, and it seems like automating this would be a good way to make the process more efficient for now.  </p>

<p>Perhaps next year we can rework the server environment to allow something more sane, such as URL rewriting (unfortunately this does not seem feasible in the current cycle of the web application).  Isn't it great to inherit crap code?</p>

<p>~ William Riley-Land</p>

NOT TESTED (from an old code base and written by a former contractor of mine)
```
```
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.DirectoryServices;
using System.IO;

namespace Common.DirectoryServices
{
    public class IISManager
    {

        private string _webSiteID;

        public string WebSiteID
        {
            get { return _webSiteID; }
            set { _webSiteID = value; }
        }

        private string _strServerName;
        public string ServerName
        {
            get
            {
                return _strServerName;
            }
            set
            {
                _strServerName = value;
            }
        }

        private string _strVDirName;
        public string VDirName
        {
            get
            {
                return _strVDirName;
            }
            set
            {
                _strVDirName = value;
            }
        }

        private string _strPhysicalPath;
        public string PhysicalPath
        {
            get
            {
                return _strPhysicalPath;
            }
            set
            {
                _strPhysicalPath = value;
            }
        }

        private VDirectoryType _directoryType;
        public VDirectoryType DirectoryType
        {
            get
            {
                return _directoryType;
            }
            set
            {
                _directoryType = value;
            }
        }

        public enum VDirectoryType
        {
            FTP_DIR, WEB_IIS_DIR
        };

        public string CreateVDir()
        {
            System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry oDE;
            System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntries oDC;
            System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry oVirDir;
            //try
           // {
                //check whether to create FTP or Web IIS Virtual Directory
                if (this.DirectoryType == VDirectoryType.WEB_IIS_DIR)
                {
                    oDE = new DirectoryEntry("IIS://" +
                          this._strServerName + "/W3SVC/" + _webSiteID + "/Root");
                }
                else
                {
                    oDE = new DirectoryEntry("IIS://" +
                          this._strServerName + "/MSFTPSVC/1/Root");
                }

                //Get Default Web Site
                oDC = oDE.Children;

                //Add row
                oVirDir = oDC.Add(this._strVDirName,
                          oDE.SchemaClassName.ToString());

                //Commit changes for Schema class File
                oVirDir.CommitChanges();

                //Create physical path if it does not exists
                if (!Directory.Exists(this._strPhysicalPath))
                {
                    Directory.CreateDirectory(this._strPhysicalPath);
                }

                //Set virtual directory to physical path
                oVirDir.Properties["Path"].Value = this._strPhysicalPath;

                //Set read access
                oVirDir.Properties["AccessRead"][0] = true;

                //Create Application for IIS Application (as for ASP.NET)
                if (this.DirectoryType == VDirectoryType.WEB_IIS_DIR)
                {
                    oVirDir.Invoke("AppCreate", true);
                    oVirDir.Properties["AppFriendlyName"][0] = this._strVDirName;
                }

                //Save all the changes
                oVirDir.CommitChanges();

                return null;

           // }
            //catch (Exception exc)
            //{
             //   return exc.Message.ToString();
            //}
        }
    }
}
```
```