By default IIS and ASP.NET aren’t configured as part of a Windows setup (for obvious reasons) so developers are used to having to register IIS manually before being able to run and develop ASP.NET web sites on their desktops. Prior to Windows 8 it was a simple command like this:
aspnet_regiis -r
This no longer works and requires a different command. Depending on what you already have enabled this may work:
dism /online /enable-feature /featurename:IIS-ASPNET45
If you haven’t enabled anything related to IIS yet you can do that at the same time with:
dism /online /enable-feature /all /featurename:IIS-ASPNET45
However! That might not appear to solve the problem even when it has! A post from Microsoft makes a bug apparent:
After the installation of the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6, users may experience the following dialog box displayed in Microsoft Visual Studio when either creating new Web Site or Windows Azure project or when opening existing projects.
Configuring Web http://localhost:64886/ for ASP.NET 4.5 failed. You must manually configure this site for ASP.NET 4.5 in order for the site to run correctly. ASP.NET 4.0 has not been registered on the Web server. You need to manually configure your Web server for ASP.NET 4.0 in order for your site to run correctly.
NOTE: Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6 may also be referred to as Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5.3
This issue may impact the following Microsoft Visual Studio versions: Visual Studio 2013, Visual Studio 2012, Visual Studio 2010 SP1
Workaround:
Select “OK” when the dialog is presented. This dialog box is benign and there will be no impact to the project once the dialog box is cleared. This dialog will continue to be displayed when Web Site Project or Windows Azure Projects are created or opened until the fix has been installed on the machine.
Resolution:
Microsoft has published a fix for all impacted versions of Microsoft Visual Studio.
Visual Studio 2013 –
- Download Visual Studio 2013 Update 4
- For more information on the Visual Studio 2013 Update 4, please refer to: Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 KB Article
Visual Studio 2012
- An update to address this issue for Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 has been published: KB3002339
- To install this update directly from the Microsoft Download Center, here
Visual Studio 2010 SP1
- An update to address this issue for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 SP1 has been published: KB3002340
- This update is available from Windows Update
- To install this update directly from the Microsoft Download Center, here
I had to put dism /online /enable-feature /all /featurename:IIS-ASPNET45
(added /all) but it worked then! thank you much.
Great!
Yep! it worked for me as well. Also had to use the /all option.
Thanks a lot 🙂
did not work returned Error: 740
Elevated permissions are required to run DISM.
Use an elevated command prompt to complete these tasks.
in vs2015 developer command prompt
Great post!
Solved my problem (using Umbraco) as well.
Does not work for me, always get 404.3 error. Have reinstalled IIS 10, made sure all asp.net aspects configured. Cannot get .asp pages to load as localhost. Can run .htm, .php etc. Have spend days on this – must be possible to host .asp website on windows 10 for development.
Well this process has worked for every machine I have had to perform web development on and also for everyone else so I would say that the registration of IIS is not your issue.
.asp is VERY VERY old, I’m not sure .asp is still listed as a standard MIME type on IIS 10 … worth checking.
Thank you! This also worked in Windows Server 2016. I am running VS2012.
Thanks
I am currently having an issue like this. My issue is that Visual Studio 2013 is using my [asset#].[domain].[country] as my “localhost” setting. I have to somehow correct Visual Studio to select “localhost” as localhost instead of my asset#. This was caused by VS installed before IIS.
Anybody know if this solution will fix for this issue??
Thanks!
That is an odd situation. I don’t have any information on that as I’ve never seen that particular issue. Sorry.