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MCTS Software & Web Developer - Microsoft .NET, C#, ASP.NET, WCF

Windows 7: Windows Features

Windows 7 - Windows Features - Turn Windows features on or offHaving acquired the first public beta (Beta 1, Build 7000) of the latest Microsoft operating system, Windows 7, I’ve been having a snoop around to see what’s new, what’s different, and one interesting thing (for developers) is that the .NET Framework is listed as version 3.5.1, this may seem confusing, but it is .NET Framework 3.5 SP1!

In the list of Windows Features, included is Internet Information Services Hostable Web Core, this is a new feature for IIS introduced in version 7.0 (Vista & Windows 2008 Server), this web core acts as a standalone Web Server for remote administration.

I’m not going to go into everything about Windows 7 since plenty of other people have done that, so if your looking for more information, look no further: