Sporadic error: The file has not been pre-compiled, and cannot be requested

Question

Symptoms: ASP.NET Web Forms website on Azure sporadically crashes and all .aspx page requests fail with this error. The problem seems random and only happens once in a great

Answer 1

In case it was working before, and suddenly you get this error message, try setting the 'Enable 32-Bit Applications' to True in the advanced options of the ApplicationPool.