IIS7 deployment - duplicate 'system.web.extensions/scripting/scriptResourceHandler' section

Question

On attempting to deploy a .net 3.5 website on the default app pool in IIS7 having the framework section set to 4.0, I get the following error.

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Answer 1

My app was an ASP.Net3.5 app (using version 2 of the framework). When ASP.Net3.5 apps got created Visual Studio automatically added scriptResourceHandler to the web.config. Later versions of .Net put this into the machine.config. If you run your ASP.Net 3.5 app using the version 4 app pool (depending on install order this is the default app pool), you will get this error.

When I moved to using the version 2.0 app pool. The error went away. I then had to deal with the error when serving WCF .svc :

HTTP Error 404.17 - Not Found The requested content appears to be script and will not be served by the static file handler

After some investigation, it seems that I needed to register the WCF handler. using the following steps:

1. open Visual Studio Command Prompt (as administrator)
2. navigate to "C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.0\Windows Communication Foundation"
3. Run servicemodelreg -i