Error deploying ClickOnce application – Reference in the manifest does not match the identity of the downloaded assembly

There was an issue with Visual Studio 2008 which is solved by not embedding the default manifest – one of the comments on that article suggests the problem still exists in Visual Studio 2010.

In project properties -> Application tab -> Resources -> checkbox Icon and manifest, the setting “Embed manifest with default settings” caused the problem. Setting it to “Create application without a manifest” fixes the problem.

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