Reference in the manifest does not match the identity of the

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/smondal/2014/03/19/reference-in-the-manifest-does-not-match-the-identity-of-the-downloaded-assembly/

 

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vsnetsetup/2013/11/15/reference-in-the-manifest-does-not-match-the-identity-of-the-downloaded-assembly/ 

There was an issue with Visual Studio which is solved by not embedding the default manifest - one of the comments on that article suggests the problem still exists in Visual Studio 2010.

In project properties -> Application tab -> Resources -> checkbox Icon and manifest, the setting "Embed manifest with default settings" caused the problem. Setting it to "Create application without a manifest" fixes the problem.