Store metadata “CurrentBind” is not valid. Error

Question

In the context of a click-once application that is being debugged locally with exception breaking on "Thrown" turned on in VS2010, I am experiencing the following error:

Deployment Exception: "Store metadata "CurrentBind" is not valid."
   at System.Deployment.Application.ComponentStore.GetPropertyString(DefinitionAppId appId, String propName)

when I execute the following line of code:

if (System.Deployment.Application.ApplicationDeployment.IsNetworkDeployed)

This exception is being caught and handled by .net code, and the application will not crash after experiencing this error. Unfortunately, this error is followed up by:

InvalidDeploymentException: "Application is not installed"
       at System.Deployment.Application.ApplicationDeployment..ctor(String fullAppId)

If I continue to wade through the exceptions, I get another error:

SynchronizationLockException: "Object synchronization method was called from an unsynchronized block of code"
       at Microsoft.Practices.Unity.SynchronizedLifetimeManager.TryExit()
@ ProvidedContainer.RegisterInstance(LoggerFacade);

and finally:

ConfigurationErrorsException: "This element is not currently associated with any context"
    at System.Configuration.ConfigurationElement.get_EvaluationContext()

in the constructor of

[System.Diagnostics.DebuggerStepThroughAttribute()]
[System.CodeDom.Compiler.GeneratedCodeAttribute("System.ServiceModel", "4.0.0.0")]
public partial class InfrastructureDataServiceClient : System.ServiceModel.ClientBase<Infrastructure.DataServices.IInfrastructureDataService>, Infrastructure.DataServices.IInfrastructureDataService 
    {
        public InfrastructureDataServiceClient() {
    }
}

These errors are all handled by the .net framework code and don't ripple into the application, but as long as I have the option to break on exception "Thrown" I continue to go through these errors until I lose patience and choose to break only on unhandled exceptions, at which point the app fully loads.

This has happened to me in the past, and at that time I had to completely re-install visual studio, but it worked fine after that. I'd rather not do that, as it is time consuming and my VS installation is pretty customized. Also, my co-workers are not experiencing the same error, so that tells me that there is something unique about my environment.

I experienced a visual studio hang recently when debugging, and had to kill the devenv process, that might play a role, but it's hard to say because I recently turned on the break on thrown option. I've already tried to delete the suo files, but that had no effect.

I have the following addons installed: Resharper, .Net Reflector, Team Explorer, TFS Power Tools, Theme Manager

Answer 1

Looks like a lot of other people have solved this problem just by disabling breaking on this exception - see here, here, here and here, for example. Nobody seems to have any idea what use this exception is, though.

I should add that I had to add the exception manually to my Debug/Exceptions list - it didn't appear by default.

Answer 2

What I did to resolve this issue was reinstall visual studio. After doing that, the exceptions went away.

Answer 3

In my case I just reset current settings in Tools/Import and Export Settings in Visual Studio 2010 menu. I hope it works for you!