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Need some help here. If I missed a post somewhere addressing this problem, could you please link it. The updater was working up til 2 days ago. Hadn't changed anything with, would click on it and it would connect like it was going to update itself except I'd get Application could not be started. Please contact vendor.

PLATFORM VERSION INFO
Windows : 5.1.2600.131072 (Win32NT)
Common Language Runtime : 2.0.50727.1378
System.Deployment.dll : 2.0.50727.1378 (REDBITSB2.050727-1300)
mscorwks.dll : 2.0.50727.1378 (REDBITSB2.050727-1300)
dfdll.dll : 2.0.50727.1378 (REDBITSB2.050727-1300)
dfshim.dll : 2.0.50727.1378 (REDBITSB2.050727-1300)

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
* [10/8/2007 9:31:17 AM] : Activation of http://www.wowace.com/wau/WowAceUpdater.application has started.

ERROR DETAILS
Following errors were detected during this operation.
* [10/8/2007 9:31:22 AM] 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.



Tried the common solutions thread and didn't help, so anything would be appreciated.

Anyone?

Still getting the please contact vendor on both the online installation and trying to install from the .zip file. Anyone else getting this?

Still getting the contact vendor error when I try to install. Anyone here know how I can contact them since I'm not getting any feedback here?

I had the same problem.
The solution is simple and it was on the troubleshoot page (at which you posted at already).

Using regedit, delete the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Deployment\SideBySide.

Hope I helped, and next time when you say you tried all possible solutions, make sure you did ;)

Fandom, I bow down to your wisdom. Thanks for taking the time to post that. I realized that I missed a step once you posted what you did. Went back reread it, and it works now and I feel like a noob for that. Anyways, thanks for the help.

I may have also been retarded on this but I missed the registry key during my furtive searches as well, so thanks for this.