Can MVC 4 run on .net 3.5?

Question

My server only supports ASP .NET 3.5 max. I am learning to develop MVC 4. Is it possible to run MVC 4 on a .NET 3.5 machine? Of course I have no right to alter the server machine's configuration. Thank you

Answer 1

No. It use components which was implemented in higher framework versions and will not be available.

This is requirements for MVC 4:

System requirements Supported operating systems: Windows 7, Windows Server 2003 R2 (32-Bit x86), Windows Server 2003 R2 x64 editions, Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista Service Pack 2, Windows XP Service Pack 3

PowerShell 2.0, .NET 4, ASP.NET 4, and Visual Studio 2010 SP1 or Visual Web Developer 2010 SP1 are required to use this feature.

Answer 2

Unfortunately no, you cannot. ASP.NET MVC 3 and 4 both require the .NET Framework 4.0 (they also require Visual Studio 2010 or later; if you're using VS2008 and/or .NET 3.5 then you're stuck with ASP.NET MVC 2.0).

Out of curiosity, what server are you running? Windows Server 2003, with the exception of Small Business Server 2003, fully supports the .NET Framework 4.0. The next older OS is Windows 2000, but that doesn't run .NET 3.5. My only other guess is that you have a crappy webhost?