title: The deployment identity at the deployment provider is not the same as the original deployment identity
body: <p>i have an application that is causing me alot of trouble. the guy who created it doesnt work at our company anymore and it is up to me to fix and release the program for our windows 7 machines</p>
  
  <p>However i get the following stacktrace:</p>
  
  <pre><code>    PLATFORM VERSION INFO
      Windows             : 6.1.7601.65536 (Win32NT)
      Common Language Runtime     : 4.0.30319.18063
      System.Deployment.dll       : 4.0.30319.17929 built by: FX45RTMREL
      clr.dll             : 4.0.30319.18063 built by: FX45RTMGDR
      dfdll.dll           : 4.0.30319.17929 built by: FX45RTMREL
      dfshim.dll          : 4.0.41209.0 (Main.041209-0000)
  
  SOURCES
      Deployment url          : file://nkm18427/PRV-JSKR/Backup/DOPeSolutions.application
      Deployment Provider url     : http://nkm18f53:8181/DRIFT/DOPe%20Data%20Management/DOPeSolutions.application
                          Server      : Apache-Coyote/1.1
  
  ERROR SUMMARY
      Below is a summary of the errors, details of these errors are listed later in the log.
      * Activation of \\nkm18427\PRV-JSKR\Backup\DOPeSolutions.application resulted in exception. Following failure messages were detected:
          + The deployment identity at the deployment provider is not the same as the original deployment identity.
  
  COMPONENT STORE TRANSACTION FAILURE SUMMARY
      No transaction error was detected.
  
  WARNINGS
      There were no warnings during this operation.
  
  OPERATION PROGRESS STATUS
      * [05-03-2014 13:45:05] : Activation of \\nkm18427\PRV-JSKR\Backup\DOPeSolutions.application has started.
  
  ERROR DETAILS
      Following errors were detected during this operation.
      * [05-03-2014 13:45:05] System.Deployment.Application.InvalidDeploymentException (SubscriptionSemanticValidation)
          - The deployment identity at the deployment provider is not the same as the original deployment identity.
          - Source: System.Deployment
          - Stack trace:
              at System.Deployment.Application.DownloadManager.FollowDeploymentProviderUri(SubscriptionStore subStore, AssemblyManifest&amp; deployment, Uri&amp; sourceUri, TempFile&amp; tempFile, IDownloadNotification notification, DownloadOptions options)
              at System.Deployment.Application.DownloadManager.DownloadDeploymentManifestBypass(SubscriptionStore subStore, Uri&amp; sourceUri, TempFile&amp; tempFile, SubscriptionState&amp; subState, IDownloadNotification notification, DownloadOptions options)
              at System.Deployment.Application.ApplicationActivator.PerformDeploymentActivation(Uri activationUri, Boolean isShortcut, String textualSubId, String deploymentProviderUrlFromExtension, BrowserSettings browserSettings, String&amp; errorPageUrl)
              at System.Deployment.Application.ApplicationActivator.ActivateDeploymentWorker(Object state)
  
  COMPONENT STORE TRANSACTION DETAILS
      No transaction information is available.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Can anyone tell me why this is happening and how i can fix it?</p>