Author: Benjamin Perkins

Capture a NETSH network trace

Debugging Benjamin Perkins

Here are the official details on this one.  I was needing to do this and realized that I had never written a post on this one.  Although we are moving into the cloud and this isn’t needed so much anymore, all the IT pros who will continue to work with Windows Server within their own […]

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Configuration error, targetFramework 4.7

Benjamin Perkins C#

I was deploying some code to one of my IIS servers and got this YSOD as seen in Figure 1.  I had coded in Visual Studio 2017 with the .NET Framework 4.7 targeted from my ASP.NET Web Forms application I wrote. Figure 1, Server Error, targetFramework=”4.7” Server Error in “/” Application. Configuration Error Description: An […]

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Targeting a specific version of the .NET Framework

Benjamin Perkins C#

I find numerous opinions and understandings about side-by-side and in-place installations of the .NET Framework.  Here is my favorite explanation of this “.NET Versioning and Multi-Targeting – .NET 4.5 is an in-place upgrade to .NET 4.0”.  I also link to that same article in one of my IIS labs here, “Lab 5: Basic and Advanced […]

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What is the current .NET version on an Azure App Service

Azure App Service Benjamin Perkins

I have an App Service here (currentdotnetversion) that shows the output of the current (when I wrote this article) .NET version using C# code.  Here is a partial code snippet: protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) {    const string subkey = @”SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NET Framework Setup\NDP\v4\Full\”;    using (RegistryKey ndpKey = RegistryKey.OpenBaseKey(RegistryHive.LocalMachine,           RegistryView.Registry32).OpenSubKey(subkey))    { […]

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