FileNotFound when reading the IIS applicationHost.config file

Question

Why I get FileNotFound using this code? if I move the applicationHost.config file to another directory such as c:\temp it will read just fine.

const string IIS_CONFIG_FILE = 
@"C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\config\applicationHost.config";
string xml = File.ReadAllText(IIS_CONFIG_FILE);
XDocument doc = XDocument.Load(new StringReader(xml));

It has to do with the directory because I can't even open a simple Test.xml file there. I used Process Monitor from SysInternals but nothing is traced. Very weird.

Thank you Max

Answer 1

如果您尝试在32位应用程序中读取此类仅64位文件，则Windows会将您引导至等效的WOW64文件路径，该路径确实不存在。