[iis] Could not load type 'System.ServiceModel.Activation.HttpModule' from assembly 'System.ServiceModel

I have Windows 8 installed on my machine, and the aspnet_regiis.exe tool did not worked for me either.

The solution that worked for me is posted on this link, on the answer by Neha: System.ServiceModel.Activation.HttpModule error

Everywhere the problem to this solution was mentioned as re-registering aspNet by using aspnet_regiis.exe. But this did not work for me.

Though this is a valid solution (as explained beautifully here)

but it did not work with Windows 8.

For Windows 8 you need to Windows features and enable everything under ".Net Framework 3.5" and ".Net Framework 4.5 Advanced Services".

Thanks Neha