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http://support.microsoft.com/kb/908077 [http://support.microsoft.com/kb/908077]

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On my Windows 2003 standard server i have .Net Framwork 2.0 Service Pack 2 and .Net Framework 3.0 Service pack 2 and .Net Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 is installed. I am trying to uninstall .Net Framework Service Pack 2 because i need to test an application without .Net Framework service pack2 but i am getting error below: Can someone tell me how can i uninstall it. thanks<br />
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&quot;Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 2 cannot be uninstalled because it will affect other applications that are installed.&quot;
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On my Windows 2003 standard server i have .Net Framwork 2.0 Service Pack 2 and .Net Framework 3.0 Service pack 2 and .Net Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 is installed. I am trying to uninstall .Net Framework Service Pack 2 because i need to test an application without .Net Framework service pack2 but i am getting error below: Can someone tell me how can i uninstall it. thanks

"Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 2 cannot be uninstalled because it will affect other applications that are installed."

Unable to uninstall Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 2

.NET application servers, a Windows Server role in an application role, includes Internet Information Services (IIS) to provide web server support, the .NET Framework to provide application support, ASP.NET to provide server side scripting, COM+ for application component communication, Message Queuing for multithreaded processing, and the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) for application communication. There are also third party server systems that provide .NET support, including Mono, Base4, TNAPS and cc Devnet Data Access Server.

.NET App Servers

The successor to Active Server Pages, ASP.NET websites utilize the .NET framework to produce dynamic, data and content-driven web applications and services. ASP.NET code can be written using any .NET supported language. As of 2009, ASP.NET can also apply the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern to web applications

ASP.NET

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).