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

I had a similar problem, and the cause was creating the project on a USB thumb drive. Creating a project on a normal hard drive volume works.

Answer 2

I've been having this problem a lot with a UWP Windows 10 app on Visual Studio 2019...for me the reliable workaround is to bump the Build number in the Package.appxmanifest file (Packaging tab). It's a huge pain...really hope Microsoft will sort this out soon

Answer 3

For me the problem was that I created the app on a TrueCrypt mounted virtual drive and when I moved the project files to a normal drive then everything worked just fine. Weird.

Answer 4

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.

Solution:

Remove the App.config

and build again

Answer 5

Making a new certificate works for me. For this, go to Package.manifest->Packaging, and follow the Choose certificate.... Click on Configure certificate and select Create test certificate. Give it a name and press OK.

Answer 6

For me, the fix was a combination of two of these answers -

1. Renew the developer license (How to get a developer license in Windows 8)
2. And deleting the build directories (though I deleted more then the screenshot depicted) Delete the Build directories