System.InvalidOperationException: Unable to generate a temporary class (result=1)

Question

I have developed an application using .net 3.5 and have deployed it as an .exe on a number of machines with the same environment. However, on one particular machine I get th

Answer 1

the APIs exist to create assemblies dynamically in memory: why not do that?

Just a wild guess: I assume this possibility did not exist yet in .NET 1.0, or at least when the XmlSerializer was created and MS doesn't like changing existing behavior...