Error Windows 8 Blank App + DEP0700

Question

I found several posts mentioning this error, but none of them helped. I created a new C # Windows Store project, and when I try to create and run it on a simulator, I get the following error in visual studio:

Error 1 Error : DEP0700 : Registration of the app failed. error 0x80072EE4: The Visual Elements extension failed while processing the Notification element. (0x80073cf6) TestDeploy 

The following is information about using the Power Shell command mentioned in another post:

 12/18/2012 3:03:59 PM 404 Error error 0x80073CF6: AppX Deployment operation failed. The specific error text for this failure is: error 0x80072EE4: The Visual Elements extension failed while processing the Notification element. 12/18/2012 3:03:59 PM 401 Error Deployment Register operation on Package cc8bb3bb-d444-4dbe-ae12-64684b12b727_1.0.0.0_neutral__2awvr17ztw74c from: (C:\Users\myself\documents\visual studio 2012\Projects\TestDeploy\TestDeploy\bin\Debug\AppX\AppxManifest.xml) failed with error 0x80073CF6. See http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=235160 for help diagnosing app deployment issues. 12/18/2012 3:03:59 PM 605 Information The last successful state reached was PackagesInUseClosed. 12/18/2012 3:03:59 PM 300 Error error 0x80073CF6: Cannot register the cc8bb3bb-d444-4dbe-ae12-64684b12b727_1.0.0.0_neutral__2awvr17ztw74c package due to the following error: Package could not be registered. . 12/18/2012 3:03:59 PM 316 Error error 0x80072EE4: Cannot register the cc8bb3bb-d444-4dbe-ae12-64684b12b727_1.0.0.0_neutral__2awvr17ztw74c package because the following error was encountered during the registration of the windows.visualElements extension: <Error message string not found>. 12/18/2012 3:03:59 PM 306 Error error 0x80072EE4: While installing the cc8bb3bb-d444-4dbe-ae12-64684b12b727_1.0.0.0_neutral__2awvr17ztw74c package, the system failed to register the windows.visualElements extension due to the following error: <Error message string not found>. 12/18/2012 3:03:59 PM 5092 Error error 0x80072EE4: The Visual Elements extension failed while processing the Notification element. 12/18/2012 3:03:57 PM 10002 Information Creating Resiliency File C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\AppRepository\4850558d-7f7f-4109-9376-3b78bf5acc86_S-1-5-21-1715567821-179605362-839522115-27106_1.rslc for Register Operation on Package cc8bb3bb-d444-4dbe-ae12-64684b12b727_1.0.0.0_neutral__2awvr17ztw74c. 12/18/2012 3:03:57 PM 603 Information Started deployment Register operation on a package with main parameter: file:///C:/Users/myself/documents/visual%20studio%202012/Projects/TestDeploy/TestDeploy/bin/Debug/AppX/AppxManifest.xml. See http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=235160 for help diagnosing app deployment issues. 12/18/2012 3:03:57 PM 301 Information The calling process is C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe 

Any ideas? I gave full control over everyone in the project, restarted it several times, tried to reinstall visual studio, and started Visual Studio as an administrator. Any help would be appreciated!

Answer 1

I got this to “work” by killing and restarting explorer.exe based on the suggestions of another Google search that I found. Actually it doesn't make sense to me or it seems to work reliably, but sometimes it works at least ... oO

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The more permanent solution that worked was some combination of reinstalling Visual Studio 2012 and installing Visual Studio Update 1.

Answer 2

I was getting the same error, and in my case neither circular explorer.exe nor uninstall / reinstall Studio 2012 Ultimate with Update 3 was executed.

What started with Visual Studio 2012 with "run as Administrator"

Answer 3

It seems that the problem should do something to install the application on both the local computer and the simulator

Answer 4

In my case, I duplicate the WP 8.1 project and add some code merging to the duplicated project. After I merged, I received the message "Package could not be registered" when I distribute it to the emulator.

But my original WP 8.1 project successfully ran on an emulator.

The root cause is the removal of any image of the application logo. VS2013 will not say that the image is missing, but displays "Package could not be registered."

Hope this helps.

Answer 5

This happened to me after uninstalling a custom application that was installed using VS and trying to reinstall the new version through VS or directly using the Add-AppDevPackage.ps1 script

Although this is not what you want to hear, rebooting fixed it for me. I tried to kill the explorer process and restart it, as mentioned above, but this did not work for me.