I'm trying to test my app on a Windows 7 machine and I'm at a complete stand still. On my XP when deployment has come to the "Application cannot be started. Contact the application vendor." error I've been able to delete the local settings and then it runs. There is none in window 7 so I've deleted what was in the App/V2.0 folder as suggested else where and run the Mage -cc and still get no where. Here's the details from the error:

PLATFORM VERSION INFO
Windows : 6.1.7600.0 (Win32NT)
Common Language Runtime : 2.0.50727.4927
System.Deployment.dll : 2.0.50727.4927 (NetFXspW7.050727-4900)
mscorwks.dll : 2.0.50727.4927 (NetFXspW7.050727-4900)
dfdll.dll : 2.0.50727.4927 (NetFXspW7.050727-4900)
dfshim.dll : 2.0.50727.4927 (NetFXspW7.050727-4900)

SOURCES
Deployment url: file://cosrvap74/RidgidInstalledClickOnce/RidgidInstalled.application
Deployment Provider url: http://web.ridgidconnect.com/RidgidInstalledClickOnce/RidgidInstalled.application
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
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ERROR SUMMARY
Below is a summary of the errors, details of these errors are listed later in the log.
* Activation of file://cosrvap74/RidgidInstalledClickOnce/RidgidInstalled.application resulted in exception. Following failure messages were detected:
+ The deployment identity at the deployment provider is not the same as the original deployment identity.

COMPONENT STORE TRANSACTION FAILURE SUMMARY
No transaction error was detected.

WARNINGS
There were no warnings during this operation.

OPERATION PROGRESS STATUS
* [9/28/2009 9:44:44 AM] : Activation of file://cosrvap74/RidgidInstalledClickOnce/RidgidInstalled.application has started.

ERROR DETAILS
Following errors were detected during this operation.
* [9/28/2009 9:44:45 AM] System.Deployment.Application.InvalidDeploymentException (SubscriptionSemanticValidation)
- The deployment identity at the deployment provider is not the same as the original deployment identity.
- Source: System.Deployment
- Stack trace:
at System.Deployment.Application.DownloadManager.FollowDeploymentProviderUri(SubscriptionStore subStore, AssemblyManifest& deployment, Uri& sourceUri, TempFile& tempFile, IDownloadNotification notification, DownloadOptions options)
at System.Deployment.Application.DownloadManager.DownloadDeploymentManifestBypass(SubscriptionStore subStore, Uri& sourceUri, TempFile& tempFile, SubscriptionState& subState, IDownloadNotification notification, DownloadOptions options)
at System.Deployment.Application.ApplicationActivator.PerformDeploymentActivation(Uri activationUri, Boolean isShortcut, String textualSubId, String deploymentProviderUrlFromExtension, BrowserSettings browserSettings, String& errorPageUrl)
at System.Deployment.Application.ApplicationActivator.ActivateDeploymentWorker(Object state)

COMPONENT STORE TRANSACTION DETAILS
No transaction information is available.

The error message you are receiving means that you changed something about the deployment properties, and the new one doesn't match the old one.

So what did you change? Target CPU? License? Assembly name? Target Framework? (Those are the ones that come straight to mind)

Or are you saying you are just trying to get it to install?

Did you move the deployment? Have the installation URL or publishing location changed? Have you changed the deployment manifest (.application file)?

RobinDotNet

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