Finding absolute path to website from a Windows service or desktop app

Question

I have a Windows service and a desktop app that is located on the same machine as my website but is not part of the site's directory. Is there a way to determine the absolute path of the website from the service or desktop app?

I came across this post: ServerManager How to get site's physical path on disk?

but three people commented that the ServerManager has some serious memory leaks, so I'm looking for a better solution.

Answer 1

假设服务和应用程序都知道网站的URL，只需在网站上由aspx驱动的页面上以XML输出绝对网络和本地路径，然后在应用程序或服务中读取XML。