Data area passed to a system is too small error in UWP app

Question

My UWP app is building,rebuilding and deploying fine but it is not running. Although, it works fine in other system.

I am using Visual Studio professional 2015 since 5 month to build this project and all of a sudden it has started showing this. When i try to uninstall the app it doesn't give any option to uninstall also.

I have tried restarting the system and cleaning,rebuilding the project file but nothing seems to work.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Causes:

It is a known issue in Visual Studio 2015.

For more info: unable to activate Windows Store app

Solution:

Update to Visual Studio 2017

For other solutions:
Unable to activate windows store app the app didn't start
Unable to activate Windows Store app: The App1.exe process started, but the activation request failed with error 'The app didn't start'

Answer 2

It seems like the directory or the folder were corrupted so that is why every time when i was running the application it was installing in a non packaged version therefore i was not getting the option to uninstall it properly.

I tried by deleting the whole folder which created in AppData folder of the Users but it didn't work.

So finally i created a new folder and moved my solution over there.And everything is working pretty much fine now.I thought we could solve this problem by repairing Visual Studio but since this issue is not related with Visual Studio and moreover it takes half of your day to repair Visual Studio so only moving the project to a newly created folder would be a good idea in this case.