DEP0600 Error when deploying UWP project

Question

After Visual Studio (Community 2015 Update 3) crashed on deploying a UWP project with a bluescreen (Unexpected Store Exception, this has happened before), i can not deploy any projects anymore. I tried with the project VS crashed on, previous versions of that project as well as completely empty new projects.

The error message is the following:

DEP0600 : The following unexpected error occurred during deployment:

'.', hexadecimal value 0x00, is an invalid character. Line 1, position 1.

Repairing Visual Studio made no difference.

I can not locate the problem, but assume something was corrupted during the crash. Would a complete reinstall of VS do more than just a repair here? Does this maybe even require more drastic steps?

Thanks,

Reinhold

Answer 1

Had same exact error and symptoms deploying to local machine after Windows Crash. Repair/Reinstall of VS did not help. Even system restore could not fix the problem.

For me I had to delete AppData/Local/Microsoft/VisualStudio folder for VS to rebuilt the necessary files.