clickonce problem

[Bob]

Hi,
I am trying to publish my application using clickonce. It seems to
build ok but I get the error "Cannot continue. The application is
improperly formatted" with the longer stack trace below when I try to
run the setup file. Does anyone have any suggestions of how to
investigate this problem?


Thanks,
Bob

PLATFORM VERSION INFO
Windows : 6.0.6000.0 (Win32NT)
Common Language Runtime : 2.0.50727.312
System.Deployment.dll : 2.0.50727.312 (rtmLHS.
050727-3100)
mscorwks.dll : 2.0.50727.312 (rtmLHS.
050727-3100)
dfdll.dll : 2.0.50727.312 (rtmLHS.
050727-3100)
dfshim.dll : 2.0.50727.312 (rtmLHS.
050727-3100)

SOURCES
Deployment url : file:///C:/TestDeploy2/FormsExample1.application

IDENTITIES
Deployment Identity : FormsExample1.application,
Version=1.0.0.1,
Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=ba6cd432ea79147f,
processorArchitecture=msil

APPLICATION SUMMARY
* Installable application.

ERROR SUMMARY
Below is a summary of the errors, details of these errors are
listed
later in the log.
* Activation of C:\TestDeploy2\FormsExample1.application
resulted in
exception. Following failure messages were detected:
+ Exception reading manifest from
file:///C:/TestDeploy2/FormsExample1_1_0_0_1/FormsExample1.exe.manifest:
the manifest may not be valid or the file could not be opened.
+ Parsing and DOM creation of the manifest resulted in
error.
Following parsing errors were noticed:
-HRESULT: 0x80070c81
Start line: 0
Start column: 0
Host file:
+ Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070C81

COMPONENT STORE TRANSACTION FAILURE SUMMARY
No transaction error was detected.

WARNINGS
There were no warnings during this operation.

OPERATION PROGRESS STATUS
* [11/9/2007 1:54:03 AM] : Activation of C:
\TestDeploy2\FormsExample1.application has started.
* [11/9/2007 1:54:05 AM] : Processing of deployment manifest
has
successfully completed.
* [11/9/2007 1:54:05 AM] : Installation of the application has
started.

ERROR DETAILS
Following errors were detected during this operation.
* [11/9/2007 1:54:05 AM]
System.Deployment.Application.InvalidDeploymentException
(ManifestParse)
- Exception reading manifest from
file:///C:/TestDeploy2/FormsExample1_1_0_0_1/FormsExample1.exe.manifest:
the manifest may not be valid or the file could not be opened.
- Source: System.Deployment
- Stack trace:
at
System.Deployment.Application.ManifestReader.FromDocument(String
localPath, ManifestType manifestType, Uri sourceUri)
at
System.Deployment.Application.DownloadManager.DownloadApplicationManifest(AssemblyManifest
deploymentManifest, String targetDir, Uri deploymentUri,
IDownloadNotification notification, DownloadOptions options, Uri&
appSourceUri, String& appManifestPath)
at
System.Deployment.Application.ApplicationActivator.DownloadApplication(SubscriptionState
subState, ActivationDescription actDesc, Int64 transactionId,
TempDirectory& downloadTemp)
at
System.Deployment.Application.ApplicationActivator.InstallApplication(SubscriptionState
subState, ActivationDescription actDesc)
at
System.Deployment.Application.ApplicationActivator.PerformDeploymentActivation(Uri
activationUri, Boolean isShortcut)
at
System.Deployment.Application.ApplicationActivator.ActivateDeploymentWorker(Object
state)
--- Inner Exception ---

System.Deployment.Application.InvalidDeploymentException
(ManifestParse)
- Parsing and DOM creation of the manifest resulted in
error.
Following parsing errors were noticed:
-HRESULT: 0x80070c81
Start line: 0
Start column: 0
Host file:
- Source: System.Deployment
- Stack trace:
at
System.Deployment.Application.Manifest.AssemblyManifest.LoadCMSFromStream(Stream
stream)
at
System.Deployment.Application.Manifest.AssemblyManifest..ctor(FileStream
fileStream)
at
System.Deployment.Application.ManifestReader.FromDocument(String
localPath, ManifestType manifestType, Uri sourceUri)
--- Inner Exception ---
System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException
- Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070C81
- Source: System.Deployment
- Stack trace:
at
System.Deployment.Internal.Isolation.IsolationInterop.CreateCMSFromXml(Byte[]
buffer, UInt32 bufferSize, IManifestParseErrorCallback Callback, Guid&
riid)
at
System.Deployment.Application.Manifest.AssemblyManifest.LoadCMSFromStream(Stream
stream)

COMPONENT STORE TRANSACTION DETAILS
No transaction information is available.