Unable to activate application.

Does anyone know what this error means. It occurs if I try to uninstall tha application or update it.
PLATFORM VERSION INFO
Windows : 5.2.3790.0 (Win32NT)
Common Language Runtime : 2.0.50215.44
System.Deployment.dll : 2.0.50215.44 (beta2.050215-4400)
mscorwks.dll : 2.0.50215.44 (beta2.050215-4400)
dfdll.dll : 8.0.50215.44 (beta2.050215-4400)
dfshim.dll : 2.0.50215.44 (beta2.050215-4400)

SOURCES
Deployment url :http://applications.ccusa.com/DAS3_Beta1/MailMan2/CCUSA.DAS.MailMan.application
Server : Microsoft-IIS/6.0
X-Powered-By : ASP.NET
Deployment Provider url :http://applications.ccusa.com/DAS3_Beta1/MailMan2/CCUSA.DAS.MailMan.application

IDENTITIES
Deployment Identity : CCUSA.DAS.MailMan.application, Version=3.0.0.8, Culture=en, PublicKeyToken=5bd0343f8e50ea96, 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 ofhttp://applications.ccusa.com/DAS3_Beta1/MailMan2/CCUSA.DAS.MailMan.application resulted in exception. Following failure messages were detected:
+ Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component.

COMPONENT STORE TRANSACTION FAILURE SUMMARY
No transaction error was detected.

WARNINGS
There were no warnings during this operation.

OPERATION PROGRESS STATUS
* [02 Aug 2005 01:55:56 +10:00] : Activation ofhttp://applications.ccusa.com/DAS3_Beta1/MailMan2/CCUSA.DAS.MailMan.application has started.
* [02 Aug 2005 01:55:57 +10:00] : Processing of deployment manifest has successfully completed.
* [02 Aug 2005 01:55:57 +10:00] : Installation of the application has started.

ERROR DETAILS
Following errors were detected during this operation.
* [02 Aug 2005 01:55:57 +10:00] System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException
- Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component.
- Source: System.Deployment
- Stack trace:
at System.Deployment.Internal.Isolation.IStore.GetAssemblyInformation(UInt32 Flags, IDefinitionIdentity DefinitionIdentity, Guid& riid)
at System.Deployment.Internal.Isolation.Store.GetAssemblyManifest(UInt32 Flags, IDefinitionIdentity DefinitionIdentity)
at System.Deployment.Application.ComponentStore.GetSubscriptionStateInternal(DefinitionIdentity subId)
at System.Deployment.Application.SubscriptionStore.GetSubscriptionStateInternal(SubscriptionState subState)
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)

COMPONENT STORE TRANSACTION DETAILS
No transaction information is available.

[3848 byte] By [MartinMcNally] at [2007-12-16]
# 1
This error came for me when my application cache got corrupted. Clean the cache and then try out the application.
KunalYadav at 2007-9-9 > top of Msdn Tech,Windows Forms,ClickOnce and Setup & Deployment Projects...
# 2
THANK YOU!

I deleted everything under LocalSettings/Apps and re-installed. It works again Big Smile

Martin

MartinMcNally at 2007-9-9 > top of Msdn Tech,Windows Forms,ClickOnce and Setup & Deployment Projects...