Skip to main content

Console Application fails on Windows Azure

Last week I was trying to add a console application as a startup task to a Windows Azure project. However each time the startup task was executed it failed with the following error

“Mixed mode assembly is built against version 'v2.0.50727' of the runtime and cannot be loaded in the 4.0 runtime without additional configuration information.”

It took me some time to figure out that the issue was caused by the Microsoft.WindowsAzure.ServiceRuntime dll which is a mixed mode assembly. When I  commented out some code and removed this DLL reference, everything worked.

So what can you do to solve this error?

  • Option 1: Compile your application against the .NET 3.5 framework instead of .NET 4.0.
  • Option 2: Add a "useLegacyV2RuntimeActivationPolicy" to the startup tag generated in the default app.config:
<startup useLegacyV2RuntimeActivationPolicy="true">

The useLegacyV2RuntimeActivationPolicy attribute is required for referencing any mixed mode assembly.

Popular posts from this blog

DevToys–A swiss army knife for developers

As a developer there are a lot of small tasks you need to do as part of your coding, debugging and testing activities.  DevToys is an offline windows app that tries to help you with these tasks. Instead of using different websites you get a fully offline experience offering help for a large list of tasks. Many tools are available. Here is the current list: Converters JSON <> YAML Timestamp Number Base Cron Parser Encoders / Decoders HTML URL Base64 Text & Image GZip JWT Decoder Formatters JSON SQL XML Generators Hash (MD5, SHA1, SHA256, SHA512) UUID 1 and 4 Lorem Ipsum Checksum Text Escape / Unescape Inspector & Case Converter Regex Tester Text Comparer XML Validator Markdown Preview Graphic Color B

Help! I accidently enabled HSTS–on localhost

I ran into an issue after accidently enabling HSTS for a website on localhost. This was not an issue for the original website that was running in IIS and had a certificate configured. But when I tried to run an Angular app a little bit later on http://localhost:4200 the browser redirected me immediately to https://localhost . Whoops! That was not what I wanted in this case. To fix it, you need to go the network settings of your browser, there are available at: chrome://net-internals/#hsts edge://net-internals/#hsts brave://net-internals/#hsts Enter ‘localhost’ in the domain textbox under the Delete domain security policies section and hit Delete . That should do the trick…

Azure DevOps/ GitHub emoji

I’m really bad at remembering emoji’s. So here is cheat sheet with all emoji’s that can be used in tools that support the github emoji markdown markup: All credits go to rcaviers who created this list.