Application Error: Application Launch was not detected for application App - windows-store-apps

When I was validation my Windows Store App I got the following error:
Application Error: Application Launch was not detected for application
App. This could be because your application failed to launch
correctly. Please consider re-running the test and avoid interacting
with the application while tests are running.
What does this mean? The app will not validate.

I thought it was a bit weird and I couldn't find anything when I googled it but people who had almost the same problem as me, though rather than launching it was failing to sleep. This was just plain odd.
I tried to launch the app from Visual Studio 2012 just to prove to myself that it did start properly and for some crazy reason it didn't work. I usually test the game on my Local Machine rather than the Simulator but now, for some reason, it was set to the Simulator and I have been having problems getting it to start lately (the simulator).
I changed it back to the local machine and ran the tests again. This time it worked.
So, if you get this error it might be time to see if your simulator works and if not, have the Local Machine set as default to run with.

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Deploying a .NET application to Google Cloud Platform worked on initial deploy, now getting 502 Error: Server Error

To give some background, I'm an (unpaid) intern, and I'm unrelated to dealing with this kind of stuff. My employers wanted to update some pictures, and they did locally but didn't know how to upload the new version to the server.
I used the publish settings that were saved in Visual Studio from when the previous intern deployed the server (he was specialized in web site stuff) and it worked on deploy ... then I refreshed the page and I'm getting 502 server error.
Steps I have taken:
Connect to the VM and restart it - didn't solve it. it's using Microsoft server 2016.
Open the VM trough RDP, check if there are errors. There were 3 services not running, and I start them manually. One still isn't running, Downloaded Maps Manager. Ok... I google it and it's not a necessary service so I disable it. Now there are no errors and all services are running but I still am getting this error.
I tried pinging the IP of the server, and the URL itself and it works.
I believe it might be something to do with the load balancer, but I had one HTML class and nothing dealing with actually publishing stuff. If you could point me in the right direction I would appreciate it. The only reason why I'm trying to fix this myself is that I didn't make some kind of backup, and I feel so stupid having taken the site down.
Edit: I've gone to "load balancing" and it says service unhealthy. I tried going to the IPs there and it brings me to the same 502 server error page. From what I've gathered this is a configuration error, it's impossible they messed something with the site itself, right? It did work that first time, and if I run it from Visual Studio it works on the local machine ...

Windows phone 8 init failure with IBM Worklight

I have a strange behaviour in my Windows phone 8 application based on Worklight.
it works locally but when I deploy it in the production environment sometimes it works and sometimes not. Obviously, the behaviour I have is that the app init success in the first launch, it doesn't work in the seconde launch, it works in the third launch, doesn't work in the forth launch ... one by one.
the difference between the development environment and the production environment is that the first one is running over HTTP and the seconde one is running ever HTTPS.
Notice that it works in the other environments (Android, iOS, BlackBerry)
Any help?
I figured out how to fix the problem.
So to explain, here, what I did:
Before calling WL.client.init, I added a procedure call first (It's like a fake call) and then I initialized the WL Client.
Obviously, It fixed my problem. I think calling a procedure does initialize the connection between the client and the server.
So when the client call WL.Client.init or WL.Client.connect, succeeds to reach the server cause the connection is already initialized.

Windows Store App Cert Kit Fails to Start

The Windows Store App Cert kit fails to start.
Normally the flow is:
Start App Cert Kit
Choose Windows Store Application
Choose App
Choose Certs to Run
Run Certs
Save results
Currently, it fails just before 'Choose App'.
I get this result:
I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling, installed all updates, running appcert.exe reset. All to no avail.
I think it may have to do with the same issue I get with the Windows Store app. I have 38 languages installed (our app supports all of them) and the Windows Store app doesn't like it. I've had to escalate with customer support repeatedly for this, and have not had it resolved properly. I wonder if the same issue applies here.
So I was unable to start the UI, but I was still able to run the appcert by manually calling it on the command line as described here. It worked fine. One thing to note is that between each attempt, make sure to run appcert.exe reset.

IIS occasionally no response

I'm facing a problem with a 3-tier application. It uses IIS and SQL Server. And the problem is that sometimes (longer requests cause higher probability) client does not receive response from IIS. It hangs when there is no activity ON SQL Server, and when even when I kill an SQL Process I get no response with an exception. When I examine data after these hangs I find that my SQL requests have succeeded, so the problem appears to be on IIS. Unfotunately I don't have much control over the place where the application is hosted and I cannot reproduce the problem. There can be many answers to this question, but at least I need a hint in what direction I should investigate.
UPDATE: I also have an app running on the same server that does a small job: it inserts around a 100 lines line-by-line into a database. Artificially I made it run for about 10 minutes (by putting xlock on the table). After removing the xlock the process on IIS continued running and successfully inserted those 100 lines. However, control never returned to the client thereafter, it just waited indefinitely. It looks like this is a problem when returning a response to the client after a long running process.
BTW, this is not a website, but a WinForms app that uses Remoting.
If you're sure that SQL Server is returning to IIS, then you might want to check the IIS logs to see what might be happening to the request. The normal location for these logs is %SystemRoot%\system32\Logfiles\<service_name>.
If you're not sure about SQL Server, you might access the SQL logs, run Profiler, or check the Windows system logs for errors, run your site in debug in Visual Studio or add your own logging to your app to figure out which step it's hanging on.
I have finally figured out where the problem is. The application is run on a web farm and there is a balancer server between the client and IIS. There was a too small timeout on the balancer. For some reason it is not quite friendly with .net remoting and it doesn't return any timeout exceptions to the client. The issue has been solved by increasing the timeout.

IIS 7.0 ASP.Net 3.5 Application fails when multiple users log on

I have an ASP.Net 3.5 Application hosted on Windows Server 2008 machine using IIS 7. There is a seperate application pool for this application.
The problem I have is that as soon as 2-3 users access website simultaneously, it starts throwing exceptions on almost any task performed say e.g. an exception during logging in the user using built in aspnet_membership. The same things work fine when there is only one user using it.
Any suggestions what things I need to test for?
Thanks,
Ali
I had some problem like this for some web-application, but in my case I was using IIS 6.0. After analyzing the application by means of some DevPartner tools for analyzing memory usage we realize that some components were consuming excessive resources, by replacing the toolkit we were using for simple .Net controls the applications stop crashing. Most of the crashes are due to problems in code. Also check the web config in the following points: sessionState, authentication. Disable custom errors (customErrors) to view the error details. See the application event's log to check the error description.
The first thing I do when setting up a website of this nature is to uncouple the session state from InProc to StateServer. Oftentimes I find that an application recycle or even an application level exception can cause the w3wp.exe process to crash and reload which dumps session errors. As with #Arce Brito's recommendation, you should do everything you can to find the root cause of the exception as decoupling the session will really only mask the symptom.