ASP.Net 2.0 and It’s Crazy Strict Install Order OR Be Careful When Installing Windows Components
- 9th July , 2007 by Sam in .Net / C#
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Recently, I re-imaged my work machine and had to re-install all of my development tools. See here for a list. The one thing I did pay attention to was to make sure IIS was installed before Visual Studio and ASP.Net 2.0. If you do it backward you’re in for a fun filled day of error messages leading your nowhere. But, I did it right so I didn’t have to worry.
Then this morning everything went to hell and the very descriptive errors appeared and I spent a few hours googling and trying some of the Kbases at Microsoft. Nothing worked until I tried this which states the cause as…
The most probable cause for this error is that you must have installed Internet Information Services (IIS) after the installation of Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0.
But remember I did do it in the right order. Right? To make a long boring story short I was messing around with adding and removing some Windows Components from the Add/Remove Programs wizard and sowhere along the line it must have reinstalled part of IIS. Either that or the Network Gnomes are back.
