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

Deploy has passed after renamed all project folders.

1. Rename all project folders.

2. Create a new uwp project. Try to run it.

3. Move old projects from the renamed project folders to created by VS with trying run the uwp project after each time.

But projects with DEP0600 error I recreated and moved all files back into new project.