Redeploying a .net click once application fails with error "application cannot be started. contact the application vendor."

Question

Details in the error say "Cannot make this application an online application because the previous version is installed. To install this application uninstall the previous version, or mark this application as installed."

Answer 1

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms229001.aspx?ppud=4

Microsoft:

These are generic error messages that occur when the application cannot be started, and no other specific reason can be found. Frequently this means that the application is somehow corrupted, or that the ClickOnce store is corrupted.