Why's the Windows Installer popping up when I build Install PKG?

[olichap]

Ok, this is real frustrating. I have a project that includes a setup project. For the past 2 months I've been compiling and building the setup project (and installing it) without problems.

Now, for some reason as soon as the setup proj tries to build the MSI file the Windows Installer launches. I get "Please Wait While WIndows Configures Visual Studio .NET Enterprise." Then another box pops up saying:

"Error 1706. No valid source could be found for product Visual Studio .NET Enterprise Architect. Then Windows Installer cannot continue."

Then the damn thing starts all over again with the installer, the error message, and again. It's a nice endless loop of installer attempts. If I click on Cancel when the installer shows itself my setup project seems to complete its build; I don't know yet whether the MSI file was created properly. It's especially frustrating because I ran the build a number of times yesterday without this problem. Nothing has changed on my computer.

Did Microsoft figure I'd be so bored compiling my applications after a certain number of times and just throw this in to see how quickly I would eject my monitor through the window after watching their infinite loop?

If anyone knows what might be happening here I'd appreciate some assistance. As you can probably gather, this problem is getting on my nerves.

Thanks,

Oli

 

[danspav]

The same thing is happening to me.

I have not yet got it to work though...

It must be some simple little flag somewhere or something just as easy to overlook that is stuffing it up.

Has anyone managed to get it to go?

 

[olichap]

You know, I'd forgotten all about this problem. Either it went away or I resolved it somehow. I'll dig around through my notes to see whether I have any sort of resolution.

O.

 

[NoseBooger]

All you have to do is go under deteceted dependencies in your setup project, right click on dotnetfxredist_x86.msm and choose "Exclude." You can't do a build if dotnetfxredist_x86.msm is not excluded.