How to configure an Empty ASP .NET Application to publish it to IIS

Question

I created an Empty ASP .NET Application and App_Code folder with custom IHttpHandler:

public class CustomJsonHandler : IHttpHandler
{
    /// <summary>
    /// You will need to configure this handler in the Web.config file of your 
    /// web and register it with IIS before being able to use it. For more information
    /// see the following link: http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=8101007
    /// </summary>
    #region IHttpHandler Members

    public bool IsReusable
    {
        // Return false in case your Managed Handler cannot be reused for another request.
        // Usually this would be false in case you have some state information preserved per request.
        get { return true; }
    }

    public void ProcessRequest(HttpContext context)
    {
        context.Response.ContentType = "text/plain";

        try
        {
            var employees = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<List<Employee>>(File.ReadAllText("index.json"));

            foreach (var emp in employees)
                context.Response.Write(emp + Environment.NewLine);
        }
        catch (Exception exc)
        {
            context.Response.Write("Error: " + exc.Message);
        } 
    }

    #endregion
}

This custom HttpHandler was registered into web.config:

<configuration>

  <system.web>
    <compilation debug="false" targetFramework="4.5.2"/>
    <httpRuntime targetFramework="4.5.2"/>
  </system.web>

  <system.webServer>
    <handlers>
      <add name="CustomJsonHandler" path="*.json" verb="GET" type="WebApplication4.App_Code.CustomJsonHandler"/>
    </handlers>
  </system.webServer>

  <system.codedom>
    <compilers>
      <compiler language="c#;cs;csharp" extension=".cs"
        type="Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform.CSharpCodeProvider, Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35"
        warningLevel="4" compilerOptions="/langversion:6 /nowarn:1659;1699;1701"/>
      <compiler language="vb;vbs;visualbasic;vbscript" extension=".vb"
        type="Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform.VBCodeProvider, Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35"
        warningLevel="4" compilerOptions="/langversion:14 /nowarn:41008 /define:_MYTYPE=\&quot;Web\&quot; /optionInfer+"/>
    </compilers>
  </system.codedom>

</configuration>

I created a new web site in IIS manager and converted my project folder to application. But when I try to open http://localhost:99/WebApplication4/WebApplication4/index.json I get the following error:

Unknown attribute: targetFramework

<system.web>
<compilation debug="false" targetFramework="4.5.2"/>
<httpRuntime targetFramework="4.5.2"/>
</system.web>

I think that I solved this problem by changing version of .NET Framework in Application Pool config. The version was changed to v4.0. But I got the next error:

Handler "CustomJsonHandler" contains the damaged module "ManagedPipelineHandler" in the list of modules

Genish Parvadia Genish Parvadia · Accepted Answer · 2016-11-16T11:56:26

Change Your Application Pool By Default 2.0 FrameWork

Advance Setting -> Change FrameWork 4.5.2 Application Pool

How to configure an Empty ASP .NET Application to publish it to IIS

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