title: Could not find file 'obj\Debug\Program.exe.manifest'
body: <p>Apologies if this has been answered before.</p>
  
  <p>Something happened to my VS2010 SP1 VB.NET environment. I have been successfully working on, compiling and publishing project A via ClickOnce for a while, and then tried to publish project B, and received the error:</p>
  
  <p>Could not find file 'obj\Debug\Program.exe.manifest' in file microsoft.common.targets. When I look at the microsoft.common.targets file, i receive > 101 warnings. </p>
  
  <p>The Help tells me its error MSBuild Error MSB3113.</p>
  
  <p>Now ALL projects behave in the same way, including the one that I was publishing.</p>
  
  <p>Things I have tried:</p>
  
  <p>Create new project in new location. same error during publish.</p>
  
  <p>I moved both projects to a different machine, and both publish without problem.</p>
  
  <p>I reinstalled VS2010 from scratch into a different location on the problem machine, and the error re-appears (problem machine is Vista, ok one is Windows7 prof).</p>
  
  <p>Tried every variation of deployment, unsigned, signed etc. All projects are in VB.NET and it is unclear how to turn off the manifest inclusion via the VS2010 settings. I have tried doing this via changing the project information in the .vbproj file to</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;PropertyGroup&gt;
      &lt;GenerateManifests&gt;false&lt;/GenerateManifests&gt;
  &lt;/PropertyGroup&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>without effect. </p>
  
  <p>The project occasionally build successfully, but then fails to publish. The pattern to this I have not yet fully understood.</p>
  
  <p>Any advice appreciated</p>
  
  <p>Peter</p>