Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Fixing: An error occurred while validating. HRESULT = '80004005'

Fixing: An error occurred while validating. HRESULT = '80004005'

The error was encountered when attempting to build a 'vdproj' setup project under Visual Studio 2008.
The underlying problem was a project with a reference to another project that had been removed.
As such the setup could not find the dependency to include in the setup package.

This was fixed by removing the bogus project reference and adding the correct reference.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

I've also just discovered that referencing a project that is contained in a solution folder will also cause this error. I moved the project outside of the folder and it worked... BUG!