Code and samples from "ArcGIS for Server Administration API for C# Developers" presentation given at 2013 and 2014 Esri Developer's Summit in Palm Springs, CA.

Built on VS2012/VS2013 and .NET Framework 4.5 with use of the JSON.NET NuGet package.

This small library demonstrates use of the ArcGIS Server administrative REST API from C# including the following key steps:

• securely getting an administrative token
• putting together the proper parameters
• making an HTTP request using HttpClient (GET or POST)
• parsing the result using JSON.NET

It includes example methods for:

• starting and stopping services
• monitoring service status
• uploading files for publishing new services from .sd files
• enumerating active services to discover their data sources (useful for finding which service has locked your dataset)

and several others.