Installs and configures the .NET framework 4, 4.5, 4.5.1, 4.5.2, or 4.6 runtime

Tested on Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012R2. The selected .NET runtime should work on versions of Windows supported by the associated .NET installer.

• Windows 2008
• Windows 2008 R2
• Windows 2012
• Windows 2012 R2

Include the default recipe in your run list. The default recipe will install the specified .NET framework version.

• node['dotnetframework']['version'] - defaults to '4.5.2' Acceptable values: '4.0', '4.5', '4.5.1', '4.5.2', '4.6', '4.6.1', '4.6.2'.

Installs the .NET Framework.

This recipe register .NET with IIS so that IIS can host .NET application associated with the specified intalled .NET version. This recipe currently does not support Windows 2012 or higher. For Windows 2012 or newer its recommended that you use the IIS cookbook to register the .NET version.

You can include the mini-tests in your runlist to verify .NET was successfully installed, however .NET will not work until you reboot.

.NET 4.6 minitests will fail until you reboot, so its best to run Chef with only dotnetframework in your runlist, reboot, then include dotnetframework again with the minitest-handler.

• Install .NET using the windows_feature resource if the current OS supports it.
• Support older versions of .NET < 4.0.
• Support installation over WinRM (i.e. native scheduled task support).
• Abstract .NET installation to a Chef resource.

Author:: Shawn Neal (sneal@sneal.net)