easiest wat to import .NET 4 fw to windows server 2003

[motil]

which file i should install in our windows server 2003 for it to support the windows 2003 server should i download the all framework (200+ mb i think) ?

[jmcilhinney]

What else would you install?

[motil]

nothing i only need .NET 4 applications (ASP.NET/windows applications) will be able to run on this machine

[jmcilhinney]

I don't mean what else besides the Framework. You asked:

should i download the all framework (200+ mb i think) ?

and I'm asking, somewhat rhetorically, what the alternatives are. The answer is that there aren't any. You either install the Framework or you don't. There is the client-only profile but you're not running client applications so that's obviously not an option. There are no other options.

[sapator]

Hi.
There is also a change that Web service extensions for 4.0 framework not to be created on IIS so you might have to do it yourself.
I don't recall if this happens when you install IIS first and then the framework or the opposite.

[chris128]

I don't mean what else besides the Framework. You asked:and I'm asking, somewhat rhetorically, what the alternatives are. The answer is that there aren't any. You either install the Framework or you don't. There is the client-only profile but you're not running client applications so that's obviously not an option. There are no other options.

If someone says they just need to be able to run winforms and ASP.NET apps then I would say the client profile would be fine - but it depends what they mean by "run". If you actually want to host the ASP.NET apps on that server then no the client profile will not be ok, but if you just want to access web pages that use ASP.NET then its fine because you dont even need any version of the .NET framework to be able to access an ASP.NET website as all the .NET stuff is done on the server side.