Long blog title, I know.  Yesterday, I ran into a issue/bug that I've never encountered during my years of being an ASP.NET developer.  The error message is below:

aspx_websvc_error

The interesting thing about this error, is that it's occurred so often that there's a for it that tells you how to fix it.  Fortunately for me, I didn't have to apply the fix in the KB.  I just had to change some of my security settings to give the account hosting the website the right permissions.

Here's how the errors occurs:

So you have an ASP.NET page that calls a web service.  This can be done within its code-behind or within a control that the page is hosting.  The big thing here is that you have a web page calling a web service.

Although you've created a proxy for the web service you plan to call, its base class still needs to create a temporary serialization assembly and cache its contents within the constructor. So, when you new-up that proxy, you run into this error.

Why you might not run into this issue:

By default, every ASP.NET web application runs as the ASPNET account, along with the IWAM_ComputerName account that runs any of the out-of-process applications for IIS.  If you haven't changed any of these default settings, more than likely you haven't encountered this bug.  However, if you're running your ASP.NET application as a different Windows user to tighten down security, you have a greater chance of getting the error. 

That's the reason why I encountered it!  We're hosting our application in IIS 6.0 and I've created a as a user with minimal rights.  Doing so, we can use Windows integrated security for connecting to remote resources like file shares, SQL Servers, etc.

For those running into the similar issue, I hope this post helps you!