IIS related System.ExecutionEngineException

Question

After too many hours of research I have come up with nothing to solve this problem. I am running a WPF program in an .xbap page file being hosted on internet explorer. Running the project in Visual Studio 2010 works just fine and generates no errors.

I want to be able to host the webpage on IIS 7.0 and to browse to it with a windows forms application. To test this I created a new website on port 80 in IIS manager. I then published the project to the local website folder and added the autogenerated project certificate file (projectName_TemporaryKey.pfx) to my Trusted Publishers and Trusted Root Certification Authorities.

My problem is this: whenever I try to browse to the file with internet explorer or with my windows forms program, the wpf program stops working. When pulling up the just-in-time debugger, I am informed that there is a System.ExecutionEngineException but am given no source code, no stack trace, and no data outside of an empty Dictionary enumerable. My guess is that this might have something to do with the database call made in the program to another machine, but I can't prove that.

I've tried several things to solve this including repairing my .NET 4.0 framework and altering permissions but nothing seems to be affect the error.

Does anyone know of a way to get more information on this error, or perhaps a step I may have missed when publishing this project?

Thanks very much.

Answer 1

Some things to check:

• Windows event log often includes additional exception information (although usually in an awful format)
• Output some trace information from your application so you can follow what's happening
• Try attaching a debugger to the WPFHost and then stepping through the code