Error DEP0700 : Registration of the app failed. on windows 10 on a macbook (dualboot)

Question

I'm trying to work from home on a UWP project, on a macbook with dualboot using windows 10, in visual studio 2015.

(So it's not on a virtual machine, which is what I find everywhere when looking for this problem)

I thought I have everything correctly set up, but when I try to run the project, I get the error:

Error DEP0700 : Registration of the app failed. Rejecting a request to register from AppxBundleManifest.xml because the manifest is not in the package root. (0x80073cf9) Ambiorix.UWP

Windows is set to developer mode, and I have the windows 10 anniversary update installed. And the file Package.appxmanifest is in fact in the root of the project. Which I was told is the manifest it is complaining about (or contains it? I don't know much about manifest files)

I have no clue at to what might be causing this, any help much appreciated.

If you need more info, just tell me, I just don't know what else to add.

Answer 1

I had a similar error, in deploying a blank UWP project (created with the Blank App (Universal Windows)) template.

DEP0700: Registration of the app failed. [0x80073CF0] error 0x80070003: Opening file from location: AppxManifest.xml failed with error: The system cannot find the path specified..

After reading the answers here I had hunch that the problem may have been that he project was on a network drive. So, first I created the same project on the local hard drive (under C:\Users...), and it ran OK.

To fix the project on the network drive, I edited the Project -> Properties -> Debug and set the Target device to Remote Machine, the Remote machine to Localhost and the Authentication Mode to Windows.

Answer 2

In my case, app was installed by another user. After deleting it, error was gone.

Answer 3

In Windows 10 I toggled from "Developer mode" to "Sideload apps" and back to "Developer mode" and it started working again.

Answer 4

In my case, there was a conflicting package installed under a different name, probably from a Visual Studio debug session.

To find all packages, I ran

Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers > out.txt

I found the conflicting package there by the publisher name. Then I removed it:

Remove-AppxPackage -AllUsers 5211b96d-a951-4e83-87f9-ef1af6cf7c97_2.0.11.0_x64__mgqd55e5kfvyj

After that, I could launch the app from Visual Studio.