MSDeploy API - Deleting a remote file through code - msdeploy

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

Assuming you're trying to delete an absolute filepath (rather than a file in a website), you're looking for something like this:
DeploymentObject destObject = DeploymentManager.CreateObject(
DeploymentWellKnownProvider.FilePath, "/foldername/filename.txt");
DeploymentObject sourceObject = DeploymentManager.CreateObject("auto", "");
DeploymentBaseOptions baseOptions = new DeploymentBaseOptions();
DeploymentSyncOptions syncOptions = new DeploymentSyncOptions
{
DeleteDestination = true;
};
DeploymentChangeSummary results = sourceObject.SyncTo(
destObject, baseOptions, syncOptions);
// results.ObjectsDeleted == 1

Answer 2

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...?!