MSDeploy API - Deleting a remote file through code

Question

I am looking to remotely fire a delete command using the MSDeploy API through c# code.

I want to achieve the following command:

msdeploy.exe -verb:delete -dest:contentPath="/folderName/filename.txt"

instead of through running an unmanaged external executable, I want to execute this using the MSDeploy .Net API.

Answer 1

I've found the answer thanks to Richard Szalay's leading and i've used the ContentPath provider as this is a common provider used by VS Publishing so the chances of having permissions is high:

var deployBaseOptions = new DeploymentBaseOptions
{
    ComputerName = "https://mywebserver.com:8172/msdeploy.axd?sitename=yourIISWebsiteName",
    UserName = "username",
    Password = "password",
    UseDelegation = true,
    AuthenticationType = "Basic"
};
var syncOptions = new DeploymentSyncOptions
{
    DeleteDestination = true
};
var deploymentObject = DeploymentManager.CreateObject(DeploymentWellKnownProvider.ContentPath,
                                                        "yourIISWebsiteName" + "/fileToDelete.txt",
                                                        destBaseOptions);

var results = deploymentObject.SyncTo(deployBaseOptions, syncOptions);

The weird thing is that results always shows 3 files deleted even when there is only one...?!