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Asked: 2026-06-10T06:16:34+00:00

I’ve been trying to download the source code for .NET 4 ( http://referencesource.microsoft.com/netframework.aspx )

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I’ve been trying to download the source code for .NET 4 (http://referencesource.microsoft.com/netframework.aspx) since yesterday but it just doesn’t work.

Clicking on the download links in IE, FF does refresh the page but the download doesn’t start.

Clicking on the download links in Chrome does start a download but it’s called netframework.aspx, there is no indication of how big the download is. In any event, trying to download with DAP has not result as well.

I’ve tried this on 2 different machines with the same results. And all of my installations including Windows is kept up to date.

Any suggestions or authentic alternatives would be appreciated.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I’ve had this happen before many times. It is downloading the installer, it just has the wrong name. I don’t think it’s worked properly in months.

    You can just change the extension from aspx to msi and then install it.

    netframework.aspx -> netframework.msi

    IE10 appears to work now, where it didn’t before (not sure if this applies to all versions of IE now).

    It appears that when you download the file, the webpage is using a postback to netframework.aspx and sets an HTTP header to notify the browser of the content. Note the filename set in the content-disposition header which is being ignored by Chrome.

    Cache-Control:private
content-disposition:attachment; extension-token; filename=DotNET.msi
Content-Type:Application/binary-stream
Date:Fri, 10 May 2013 18:31:05 GMT
Server:Microsoft-IIS/7.5
Transfer-Encoding:chunked
X-AspNet-Version:2.0.50727
X-Powered-By:ASP.NET
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