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I have a site object. How do I get the webapplication from the site? I do not have spcontext available. I am using SharePoint 2010. I am trying to do this in a feature event reciever when my feature in enabled.

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If your feature is activated at the SPSite level, you can do the following...

SPSite site = properties.Feature.Parent as SPSite;
SPWebApplication webApp = site.WebApplication;

I'm not near VS2010 to verify, but I believe properties.Feature.Parent is correct.

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