I have something strange going on another project I just started. Basically, the framework is unchanged. However, at startup, the server times out on a very simple line. Here is the piece of code where this is happening:

        ' Connection string collection
        Public oConnection As Collection = New Collection

            Dim lcConnection As String = ""

            ' Connection strings
            lnConnection = Val(GetIni(cINIDirectory + cINIFile, "System", "Connection"))
            For lnCounter = 1 To lnConnection
                lcConnection = GetIni(cINIDirectory + cINIFile, "Connection", "Connection" + lnCounter.ToString)

                ' See if we have to parse the startup directory
                lcConnection = StrTran(lcConnection, "<%=Framework.App.cStartupDirectory%>", cStartupDirectory)

                Throw New System.Exception(lcConnection)
                oConnection.Add(lcConnection)
            Next

As you can see, I have inserted a Throw exception just to make sure everything was ok up until that point and that I have the good value in lcConnection. So, that part is ok. However, if I move the Throw exception line after the oConnection.Add(), the IIS server times out.

This doesn't make any sense. I have never seen something like this.

The event viewer reports this which doesn't provide that much:

aspnet_wp.exe (PID: 3472) was recycled because it failed to respond to ping message.

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