Question

I am facing a weird problem. My web application throws error “Value to add was out of range Parameter name :value “. Now this is not every time I run the program.Sometimes shows error and sometimes runs without problems (no changes done).stack traces given below the error is not clear (at least for me). Anybody faced this kind of issue ?

Error Details

Value to add was out of range.
Parameter name: value
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

Exception Details: System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Value to add was out of range.
Parameter name: value

Source Error: 

An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below.  

Stack Trace: 


[ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Value to add was out of range.
Parameter name: value]
   System.DateTime.Add(Double value, Int32 scale) +9388319
   System.Web.Compilation.CodeDirectoryCompiler.GetCodeDirectoryAssembly(VirtualPath virtualDir, CodeDirectoryType dirType, String assemblyName, StringSet excludedSubdirectories, Boolean isDirectoryAllowed) +8837703
   System.Web.Compilation.BuildManager.CompileCodeDirectory(VirtualPath virtualDir, CodeDirectoryType dirType, String assemblyName, StringSet excludedSubdirectories) +125
   System.Web.Compilation.BuildManager.CompileCodeDirectories() +319
   System.Web.Compilation.BuildManager.EnsureTopLevelFilesCompiled() +248

[HttpException (0x80004005): Value to add was out of range.
Parameter name: value]
   System.Web.Compilation.BuildManager.ReportTopLevelCompilationException() +62
   System.Web.Compilation.BuildManager.EnsureTopLevelFilesCompiled() +421
   System.Web.Compilation.BuildManager.CallAppInitializeMethod() +31
   System.Web.Hosting.HostingEnvironment.Initialize(ApplicationManager appManager, IApplicationHost appHost, IConfigMapPathFactory configMapPathFactory, HostingEnvironmentParameters hostingParameters, PolicyLevel policyLevel, Exception appDomainCreationException) +605

[HttpException (0x80004005): Value to add was out of range.
Parameter name: value]
   System.Web.HttpRuntime.FirstRequestInit(HttpContext context) +9013676
   System.Web.HttpRuntime.EnsureFirstRequestInit(HttpContext context) +97
   System.Web.HttpRuntime.ProcessRequestInternal(HttpWorkerRequest wr) +258




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Version Information: Microsoft .NET Framework Version:4.0.30319; ASP.NET Version:4.0.30319.1 

Answer 1

Just guesses: as the exception seems to be thrown from the code that you do not control, it is not your code that causes the error. However, that could be your system settings. For example, for some weird reason System.DateTime.Add(Double value, Int32 scale) is called with such parameters, that, as MSDN states,

The resulting DateTime is less than MinValue or greater than MaxValue.

Is it ever possible that the time on your computer is now set to some incredibly high value? Close to 23:59:59.9999999, December 31, 9999, for instance. Or maybe low value, close to 00:00:00.0000000, January 1, 0001. So the compiler for some reasons picks up the current date and needs to add some time span to it, which causes your error.

Just a wild guess, but maybe…

UPDATE

The code of the System.Web.Compilation.CodeDirectoryCompiler.GetCodeDirectoryAssembly method can be found here. In the code there is a line

DateTime waitLimit = DateTime.UtcNow.AddMilliseconds(3000); 

That’s the only place that could throw such exception (if the version I am looking at is the same as your environment). So it gives more votes for weird time set on your computer.