FIX: You receive a "System.ExecutionEngineException" exception when your application deserializes a hash table in the .NET Framework 1.1 SP1 (889168)

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Steps to reproduce the behavior

1. Start Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003.
2. On the File menu, point to New, and then click Project.
3. Click Visual C# Projects, click Console Application, and then click OK.
4. In Solution Explorer, right-click References, and then click Add Reference.
5. On the .NET tab, click System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap, click Select, and then click OK.
6. In Solution Explorer, double-click Class1.cs, and then replace all the code that is provided in Class1.cs with the following code example.

   using System;
   using System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary;
   using System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters;
   using System.IO;
   using System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap;
   using System.Collections;
   
   namespace ConsoleApplication1
   {
   	[Serializable]
   	public class Class2
   	{
   		public Hashtable questionStmtMap = new Hashtable(new CaseInsensitiveHashCodeProvider(), new CaseInsensitiveComparer());
   		public Class2()
   		{
   
   		}
   
   	}
   
   	class Class1
   	{
   		[STAThread]
   		static void Main(string[] args)
   		{
   			Class2 C2 = new Class2();
   			object o = new object();
   			C2.questionStmtMap.Add("q17P","1");
   			C2.questionStmtMap.Add("q107","2");
   			string filename = @"Test.bin";
   			SoapFormatter formatter = new SoapFormatter();
   			formatter.AssemblyFormat = FormatterAssemblyStyle.Simple;
   			using(Stream stream = new FileStream(filename, FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write, FileShare.Write))
   			{ 
   				formatter.Serialize(stream, C2);
   			}
   
   			using(Stream stream = new FileStream(filename, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read, FileShare.Read))
   			{
   				//The application will fail at the next line with a System.ExecutionEngineException exception.
   				C2 = (Class2) formatter.Deserialize( stream, null ); 
   			}
   
   		}
   		
   	}
   }

7. On the Debug menu, click Start. You will receive the exception that is mentioned in the "Symptoms" section.