ClickOnce: The directory name is invalid

Just had this issue after deleting the local application files from a ClickOnce-deployed application. The application would not update or start.

ERROR SUMMARY
Below is a summary of the errors, details of these errors are listed later in the log.
* Activation of https://qat.unvienna.org/APGUI-Global/APGAssignmentPro.application?ticket=87E653CC3B6235E1223144B171B4D17742B2DE7C2FD431ED56F2113BB77C694906107D95973A7731FB307B1C967CA8C71043FC3E0FD3EC191B53E9D2D07E4ACBB1D5EDE5ADF266215710F392A2889362AF3A6326DD63F52659923174E8E774FE793C69DFCEF57506C0D62A9E8011EE48B9506616&Location=Vienna resulted in exception. Following failure messages were detected:
+ The directory name is invalid. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007010B)

Fortunately, the solution is simple. Delete all the files and directories from the Apps directory, where ClickOnce applications are stored.

Reference: Missing Local Files (link)

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link

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Instructions on installing components are here.

Install

• Visual Studio 2008 Team Explorer, 
• Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1,
• Visual Studio Team System 2008 Service Pack 1 Forward Compatibility Update for Team Foundation Server 2010

and connect to TFS server.

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The solution was to create a wildcard application map for aspnet_isapi.dll that does not verify that the file exists, as described in the following link.

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• SD.LLBLGen.Pro.DebugVisualizers2010.dll, 
• SD.LLBLGen.Pro.DQE.SqlServer.NET20.dll, and 
• SD.LLBLGen.Pro.ORMSupportClasses.NET20.dll 

into c:\Users\<your username>\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Visualizers\
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More details (link).