ASP.NET strange compilation error

Question

I don\'t know what\'s wrong with my machine, but it\'s a while that I\'m getting the following strange error from ASP.NET (for all my applications).

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Answer 1

This kind of errors appears "strange" because they are related to the .NET Framework dynamic source code generation and compilation feature, and, in my opinion, the various errors generated are not reported with all the information needed to understand the real root cause. IIS will report only a generic failure like "Configuration Error" or "Compilation Error", the command line of the dynamic compilation (with reference to temporary files created on-the-fly), and an error code.

Since the error is generic, by searching it on Internet (and in answers to this question), you'll find several different solutions that solved the issue for other people, but will not necessarily solve the issue for your specific case.

For the specific error reported in this question "-1073741502", the root cause appears to be a "DLL Initialization Failed" error during the compilation and from the following article it is likely to happen when the system is low on what is called Desktop Heap memory: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/friis/2012/09/19/c-compiler-or-visual-basic-net-compilers-fail-with-error-code-1073741502-when-generating-assemblies-for-your-asp-net-site/ .

The same blog post suggests to change the app pool account to give more "Desktop Heap memory" or to increase it by changing Windows registry. And the solution to change the app pool account is the one accepted for this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/6929129/1996150

Since the "dynamic compilation" of ASP.NET pages appears to be not mandatory if all the code is already compiled within Visual Studio, in many cases similar errors can be solved by manually removing the element "" from web.config file or removing the Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform NuGet package (see https://stackoverflow.com/a/49903967/1996150).