.NET error: Unrecognized attribute ‘targetFramework’ on IIS6
I recently had to move a .NET application directory to a new location on an IIS 6 server. When I did, of course everything broke. Among the errors that had to be fixed was this one:
Unrecognized attribute 'targetFramework'.
This is usually because the application pool is not set to use the framework assigned to the application in IIS Manager.
There are several ways to fix this. I chose the easiest one: setting the application extension path to the correct executable.
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