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Under IIS installation features, what is the difference between .net framework 4.7 and asp.net 4.7


Under IIS installation features, what is the difference between .net framework 4.7 and asp.net 4.7

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  • .NET Framework 4.7 installs just the framework itself on the system.

    ASP.NET 4.7 is equivalent to the command line of aspnet_regiis -i which registers ASP.NET bits on IIS,

    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/dotnet/netframework-2.0/k6h9cz8h(v=vs.80)

    Such separation of core framework/ASP.NET/WCF (backed by ServiceModelReg.exe) has been widely known since .NET Framework 1.0, but sounds like that knowledge has been lost after two decades.