ASP.NET 2.0 Application on IIS 5 Resulting in Error (aspnet_wp.exe (PID: XXXX) stopped unexpectedly.)

Question

After hosting an ASP.NET 2.0 web application on a windows 2000 server(IIS 5). I was unable to browse the web site.

The following error message was displayed on the b

Answer 1

This error means that your code has thrown an exception that has either crashed IIS, or forced it to shut down. Common exceptions that cause this are OutOfMemoryException and StackOverflowException.

You're getting a FileLoadException, but there could be an underlying OutOfMemoryException or similar that's actually the root cause of that. Without knowing what you're trying to load, and the code that's inside it, it's impossible to tell what's actually causing your problem.

The first thing I would do to rule out a problem with the loading assembly, though, is to try and reflect over it in a test harness and see if the same problem happens. If so, then the problem is with the DLL that you're trying to load, not IIS.