Just walked through the VB web project in VS 2013.
Many cases of type errors in the system, System.Collections 1 , ...
It turns off when copying the <configSections> element to web.config (as part of adding better logging) I would copy the surrounding <configuration> element as well.
Many oddities followed. I was able to find the problem when I found that I could start the site, and the IIS error page informed me that I had a configuration error.
Now weβll redo all the changes that I canceled on the way to finding this ...
1 Miracles of serving old code.
Richard
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