Asp.net Runtime Error Unrecognized Configuration Section Appsettings

★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ Soumitra MondalApril 15, 20142 0 unrecognized configuration section configuration 0 0 Problem description: A 64bit managed .Net service crashes with an exception unrecognized configuration section applicationsettings "Configuration system failed to initialize" on a Win7 X64 OS. I launched the App.exe in the debugger(http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg463009) and took a crash dump http://support.microsoft.com/kb/286350You may also run the

Configuration System Failed To Initialize

following command: cscript adplus.vbs -crash –sc "App.exe" After analyzing the crash dump, I found the below information: 0:000> | . 0 id: 1f920 examine name: C:\Program Files\xxxxxxx\App.exe 0:000> kL100 Child-SP RetAddr Call Site 00000000`001aab20 000007fe`e6c3001f KERNELBASE!RaiseException+0x39 00000000`001aabf0 000007fe`e70d8ef5 mscorwks!RaiseTheExceptionInternalOnly+0x2ff 00000000`001aace0 000007fe`da68dedc mscorwks!JIT_Rethrow+0xe5 00000000`001aae80 000007fe`e6b75a21 System_Configuration_ni!System.Configuration.ClientConfigurationSystem.EnsureInit(System.String)+0x33c 00000000`001aaee0 000007fe`e6b5ba9a mscorwks!ExceptionTracker::CallHandler+0x145 00000000`001aafe0 000007fe`e6bef7db mscorwks!ExceptionTracker::CallCatchHandler+0x9e 00000000`001ab070 00000000`77109dad mscorwks!ProcessCLRException+0x2ab 00000000`001ab110 00000000`770f8a4c ntdll!zzz_AsmCodeRange_End 00000000`001ab140 000007fe`e6c6d246 ntdll!RtlUnwindEx+0x539 00000000`001ab7e0 000007fe`e6bef787 mscorwks!ClrUnwindEx+0x36 00000000`001abcf0 00000000`77109d2d mscorwks!ProcessCLRException+0x257 00000000`001abd90 00000000`770f91cf ntdll!RtlpExecuteHandlerForException+0xd 00000000`001abdc0 00000000`77131248 ntdll!RtlDispatchException+0x45a 00000000`001ac4a0 000007fe`fd39940d ntdll!KiUserExceptionDispatch+0x2e 00000000`001aca60 000007fe`e6c3001f KERNELBA

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