The configuration section 'system.web.extensions' cannot be read because it is missing a section declaration

Posted by Jeff Widmer on ASP.net Weblogs See other posts from ASP.net Weblogs or by Jeff Widmer
Published on Fri, 11 Nov 2011 10:27:23 GMT Indexed on 2011/11/11 17:53 UTC
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After upgrading an ASP.NET application from .NET Framework 3.5 to .NET Framework 4.0 I ran into the following error message dialog when trying to view any of the modules in IIS on the server.

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What happened is during the upgrade, the web.config file was automatically converted for .NET Framework 4.0.  This left behind an empty system.web.extensions section:

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It was an easy fix to resolve, just remove the unused system.web.extensions section.

 

ERROR DIALOG TEXT:
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ASP
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There was an error while performing this operation.
Details:
Filename: \\?\web.config
Line number: 171
Error: The configuration section 'system.web.extensions' cannot be read because it is missing a section declaration
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OK  
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