Problem with installing click-once after adding reportviewercontrol 14 to the project

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Hello every one

I had a project that deployed via click-once and published and then installed just fine

then after adding ReportViewerControl via NuGet , it is published Ok

when I tried to install it I got the following error :
Cannot continue. The application is improperly formatted.

Details :
PLATFORM VERSION INFO
Windows : 10.0.14393.0 (Win32NT)
Common Language Runtime : 4.0.30319.42000
System.Deployment.dll : 4.6.1586.0 built by: NETFXREL2
clr.dll : 4.6.1637.0 built by: NETFXREL3STAGE
dfdll.dll : 4.6.1586.0 built by: NETFXREL2
dfshim.dll : 10.0.14393.0 (rs1_release.160715-1616)

SOURCES
Deployment url
: file:///D:/Projects/Published/UltimatePharmaForms.application

IDENTITIES
Deployment Identity
: UltimatePharmaForms.application, Version=17.3.30.1138, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=0000000000000000, 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 D:\Projects\Published\UltimatePharmaForms.application resulted in exception. Following failure messages were detected:
+ Exception reading manifest from file:///D:/Projects/Published/Application%20Files/UltimatePharmaForms_17_3_30_1138/UltimatePharmaForms.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
* The manifest for this application does not have a signature. Signature validation will be ignored.

OPERATION PROGRESS STATUS
* [31/03/2017 10:48:49 PM] : Activation of D:\Projects\Published\UltimatePharmaForms.application has started.
* [31/03/2017 10:48:49 PM] : Processing of deployment manifest has successfully completed.
* [31/03/2017 10:48:49 PM] : Installation of the application has started.

ERROR DETAILS
Following errors were detected during this operation.
* [31/03/2017 10:48:49 PM] System.Deployment.Application.InvalidDeploymentException (ManifestParse)
- Exception reading manifest from file:///D:/Projects/Published/Application%20Files/UltimatePharmaForms_17_3_30_1138/UltimatePharmaForms.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, String textualSubId, String deploymentProviderUrlFromExtension, BrowserSettings browserSettings, String& errorPageUrl)
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.

I don't understand anything from it :(
Can you please help me figure out why this error is happening and how to solve it ?
Thanks very much.

What I have tried:

Disable signing the click-once manifest
Disable signing the assembly
Change Target Framework to 4.6.1
Change Target Framework to 4.6.2

Posted 2-Apr-17 1:42am

Ahmad_kelany

Updated 10-Aug-21 23:04pm

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Graeme_Grant 2-Apr-17 8:42am

- Exception reading manifest from file:///D:/Projects/Published/Application%20Files/UltimatePharmaForms_17_3_30_1138/UltimatePharmaForms.exe.manifest: the manifest may not be valid or the file could not be opened.

Have you checked that the file is being included in the package?

Ahmad_kelany 2-Apr-17 10:24am

Thanks for your reply,
Yes I checked and it's included.

Graeme_Grant 2-Apr-17 10:32am

Does "reportviewercontrol 14" have any dependencies of its own that are not manually added to the install build?

Ahmad_kelany 2-Apr-17 10:59am

That I don't know, the project builds and runs perfectly in debug mode with no errors,
and the failing installation attempt is done on the same machine that I develop on.

3 solutions

Solution 2

I solved it by commenting out the content of application tag in app.manifest file.

<application>
  <!-- A list of all Windows versions that this application is designed to work with.
  Windows will automatically select the most compatible environment.-->

  <!-- If your application is designed to work with Windows Vista, uncomment the following supportedOS node-->
  <!--<supportedOS Id="{e2011457-1546-43c5-a5fe-008deee3d3f0}"></supportedOS>-->

  <!-- If your application is designed to work with Windows 7, uncomment the following supportedOS node-->
  <!--<supportedOS Id="{35138b9a-5d96-4fbd-8e2d-a2440225f93a}"/>-->

  <!-- If your application is designed to work with Windows 8, uncomment the following supportedOS node-->
  <!--<supportedOS Id="{4a2f28e3-53b9-4441-ba9c-d69d4a4a6e38}"></supportedOS>-->

  <!--The ID below indicates application support for Windows 8.1 -->
  <!--<supportedOS Id="{1f676c76-80e1-4239-95bb-83d0f6d0da78}"/>-->

  <!--The ID below indicates application support for Windows 10 -->
  <!--<supportedOS Id="{8e0f7a12-bfb3-4fe8-b9a5-48fd50a15a9a}"/>-->

</application>

Note: If clickonce is signed then removing only the vista one would do the trick otherwise removing the entire section.
Hope this helps!!!

Posted 5-May-21 4:05am

Sriyashree Swain

Updated 5-May-21 4:29am

Solution 3

I had a similar issue however i realised that i had an ampersand (&) in my assembly name. Removing the character solved my issue. I hope this helps you out.

Posted 10-Aug-21 23:04pm

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Ahmad_kelany · Accepted Answer · 2017-04-04T06:35:00

Solution 1

I found the solution here :
Problem With Installing Click-Once After Adding ReportViewerControl 14 To the Project[^]

Posted 4-Apr-17 6:35am

Ahmad_kelany