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You see the error as well when trying to migrate from a Mono.Net project to an MS.Net project? The key is in the web.config file (one retard thinks he can change everything to make it more 'compatible'): < ?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <configuration> [...] <system .web> <compilation defaultLanguage="c#" debug="true"> <compilers> <compiler language="cs;c#;csharp" extension=".cs" warningLevel="1" compilerOptions="/codepage:65001" type="Microsoft.CSharp.CSharpCodeProvider, System, Version=1.0.5000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" /> </compilers> [..] </compilation> </system> </configuration> The codepage:utf8 is not valid, it must be a number: 65001. Or you can simply omit this whole line...