I tried the fix that you suggested and I received the following error:
Could not load file or assembly 'Nop.Plugin.DiscountRules.BillingCountry, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' or one of its dependencies. The network name cannot be found.
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.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'Nop.Plugin.DiscountRules.BillingCountry, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' or one of its dependencies. The network name cannot be found.
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.
Assembly Load Trace: The following information can be helpful to determine why the assembly 'Nop.Plugin.DiscountRules.BillingCountry, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' could not be loaded.
WRN: Assembly binding logging is turned OFF.
To enable assembly bind failure logging, set the registry value [HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Fusion!EnableLog] (DWORD) to 1.
Note: There is some performance penalty associated with assembly bind failure logging.
To turn this feature off, remove the registry value [HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Fusion!EnableLog].
Stack Trace:
[FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'Nop.Plugin.DiscountRules.BillingCountry, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' or one of its dependencies. The network name cannot be found.]
System.Reflection.RuntimeAssembly._nLoad(AssemblyName fileName, String codeBase, Evidence assemblySecurity, RuntimeAssembly locationHint, StackCrawlMark& stackMark, Boolean throwOnFileNotFound, Boolean forIntrospection, Boolean suppressSecurityChecks) +0
System.Reflection.RuntimeAssembly.nLoad(AssemblyName fileName, String codeBase, Evidence assemblySecurity, RuntimeAssembly locationHint, StackCrawlMark& stackMark, Boolean throwOnFileNotFound, Boolean forIntrospection, Boolean suppressSecurityChecks) +39
System.Reflection.RuntimeAssembly.InternalLoadAssemblyName(AssemblyName assemblyRef, Evidence assemblySecurity, StackCrawlMark& stackMark, Boolean forIntrospection, Boolean suppressSecurityChecks) +132
System.Reflection.Assembly.Load(AssemblyName assemblyRef) +30
Nop.Core.Plugins.PluginManager.PerformFileDeploy(FileInfo plug) in PluginManager.cs:301
Nop.Core.Plugins.PluginManager.Initialize() in PluginManager.cs:114
[Exception: Could not load file or assembly 'Nop.Plugin.DiscountRules.BillingCountry, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' or one of its dependencies. The network name cannot be found.
]
Nop.Core.Plugins.PluginManager.Initialize() in PluginManager.cs:163
[InvalidOperationException: The pre-application start initialization method Initialize on type Nop.Core.Plugins.PluginManager threw an exception with the following error message: Could not load file or assembly 'Nop.Plugin.DiscountRules.BillingCountry, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' or one of its dependencies. The network name cannot be found.
.]
System.Web.Compilation.BuildManager.InvokePreStartInitMethods(ICollection`1 methods) +423
System.Web.Compilation.BuildManager.CallPreStartInitMethods() +306
System.Web.Hosting.HostingEnvironment.Initialize(ApplicationManager appManager, IApplicationHost appHost, IConfigMapPathFactory configMapPathFactory, HostingEnvironmentParameters hostingParameters, PolicyLevel policyLevel, Exception appDomainCreationException) +591
[HttpException (0x80004005): The pre-application start initialization method Initialize on type Nop.Core.Plugins.PluginManager threw an exception with the following error message: Could not load file or assembly 'Nop.Plugin.DiscountRules.BillingCountry, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' or one of its dependencies. The network name cannot be found.
.]
System.Web.HttpRuntime.FirstRequestInit(HttpContext context) +9013676
System.Web.HttpRuntime.EnsureFirstRequestInit(HttpContext context) +97
System.Web.HttpRuntime.ProcessRequestNotificationPrivate(IIS7WorkerRequest wr, HttpContext context) +256
Version Information: Microsoft .NET Framework Version:4.0.30319; ASP.NET Version:4.0.30319.1