Better way to install IIS7 programmatically

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The best option going forward is using DISM (Deployment Image Servicing and Management). This works on Windows 7/Windows server 2008 R2 and above. All other options are deprecated.

Here’s a code sample with the minimum features needed (you can easily add more if you require different ones):

string SetupIIS()
{
    var featureNames = new [] 
    {
        "IIS-ApplicationDevelopment",
        "IIS-CommonHttpFeatures",
        "IIS-DefaultDocument",
        "IIS-ISAPIExtensions",
        "IIS-ISAPIFilter",
        "IIS-ManagementConsole",
        "IIS-NetFxExtensibility",
        "IIS-RequestFiltering",
        "IIS-Security",
        "IIS-StaticContent",
        "IIS-WebServer",
        "IIS-WebServerRole",
    };

    return ProcessEx.Run(
        "dism",
        string.Format(
            "/NoRestart /Online /Enable-Feature {0}",
            string.Join(
                " ", 
                featureNames.Select(name => string.Format("/FeatureName:{0}",name)))));
}           

static string Run(string fileName, string arguments)
{
    using (var process = Process.Start(new ProcessStartInfo
    {
        FileName = fileName,
        Arguments = arguments,
        CreateNoWindow = true,
        WindowStyle = ProcessWindowStyle.Hidden,
        RedirectStandardOutput = true,
        UseShellExecute = false,
    }))
    {
        process.WaitForExit();
        return process.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd();
    }
}

This will result in the following command:

dism.exe /NoRestart /Online /Enable-Feature /FeatureName:IIS-ApplicationDevelopment /FeatureName:IIS-CommonHttpFeatures /FeatureName:IIS-DefaultDocument /FeatureName:IIS-ISAPIExtensions /FeatureName:IIS-ISAPIFilter /FeatureName:IIS-ManagementConsole /FeatureName:IIS-NetFxExtensibility /FeatureName:IIS-RequestFiltering /FeatureName:IIS-Security /FeatureName:IIS-StaticContent /FeatureName:IIS-WebServer /FeatureName:IIS-WebServerRole

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