Unable to Activate Windows Store App

Question

I installed a retail version of Windows 8 Pro. I downloaded and installed Visual Studio Express 2012. I asked for and received a developers certificate. Then I tried to c

Answer 1

For those who get a similar error but who are searching for a solution while debugging an IOT background app on a local machine specifically - you can find it here.

Using the search term "unable to activate windows store app the activation request failed with error" brought me here.

Answer 2

For me a RESTART of pc solved this error message.

Answer 3

This sort of problems are common with Windows 8 Visual Studio. Such errors encounters when your developer license of Visual Studio has expired so you may want to renew or get a new developer license here's how you get that. How to get a developer license in Windows 8

And similar problem may also encounter with E_Fail issues here's how to solve Unable to activate Windows Store app E_Fail Issue

Answer 4

The issue might be caused because NuGet will try to add an app.config with binding redirects to Windows Store apps if it thinks it is needed. However, Windows Store apps don’t need app.config, and will actually fail to start with a very confusing error message if it is present.

And the solution in this case would be to Remove the App.config

Answer 5

This gift was courtesy of Microsoft's automatic updates for VS2015 which was one of the 2 culprits:

KB3022398 KB3165756

It also broke SourceTree and other apps that draw the GUI - making an outline of the app but not drawing the contents.

Answer 6

For me changing the Package Name in Package.appxmanifest fixed the problem