Authors CurseForge

I've searched for a solution to this issue all day today and cannot find any answers, so attached is a text file containing the details of the error I'm getting when I try to install WAU 1.9.44. I've tried installed from the publish site, and with the zip file. Both ways give the same error.

Error message:
"Cannot Start Application

Cannot continue. The application is improperly formatted. Contact the application vendor for assistance."

Also I have cleared my clickonce cache and reset winsock, but still get this error.

Side note: I installed it on my PC just fine (XP pro machine) I'm trying to install this on my laptop however

I tried with the zip and with the website multiple times, tried clearing the clickonce cache and resetting winsock. My laptop is running Media Center Edition... but that's just XP pro with extra entertainment software... umm... I've uninstalled .Net 2.0 and let the website install it again... not sure what else to try here.

Thanks for the help.

I got same problem, can anyone help ?

I've been getting something similar. Tried the self-help thread, but no luck. Everytime I run the updater I get:

PLATFORM VERSION INFO
Windows : 5.1.2600.131072 (Win32NT)
Common Language Runtime : 2.0.50727.832
System.Deployment.dll : 2.0.50727.832 (QFE.050727-8300)
mscorwks.dll : 2.0.50727.832 (QFE.050727-8300)
dfdll.dll : 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200)
dfshim.dll : 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200)

SOURCES
Deployment url : http://www.wowace.com/wau/WowAceUpdater.application

ERROR SUMMARY
Below is a summary of the errors, details of these errors are listed later in the log.
* Activation of http://www.wowace.com/wau/WowAceUpdater.application resulted in exception. Following failure messages were detected:
+ The referenced assembly is not installed on your system. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x800736B3)

COMPONENT STORE TRANSACTION FAILURE SUMMARY
No transaction error was detected.

WARNINGS
There were no warnings during this operation.

OPERATION PROGRESS STATUS
* [10/7/2007 5:33:09 PM] : Activation of http://www.wowace.com/wau/WowAceUpdater.application has started.

ERROR DETAILS
Following errors were detected during this operation.
* [10/7/2007 5:33:11 PM] System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException
- The referenced assembly is not installed on your system. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x800736B3)
- 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.SubscriptionStore.CheckAndReferenceApplication(SubscriptionState subState, DefinitionAppId appId, Int64 transactionId)
at System.Deployment.Application.DownloadManager.DownloadDeploymentManifestDirectBypass(SubscriptionStore subStore, Uri& sourceUri, TempFile& tempFile, SubscriptionState& subState, IDownloadNotification notification, DownloadOptions options, ServerInformation& serverInformation)
at System.Deployment.Application.DownloadManager.DownloadDeploymentManifestBypass(SubscriptionStore subStore, Uri& sourceUri, TempFile& tempFile, SubscriptionState& subState, IDownloadNotification notification, DownloadOptions options)
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.

Did I miss a thread somewhere on how to fix this? Everything worked fine til about 2 days ago.