Prerequisite Package Location In Visual Studio

In order to use Prerequisite Packages in Visual Studio you must place them in the appropriate Bootstrapper directory.

For Visual Studio 2008 on 32 bit:

%PROGRAMFILES%\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Bootstrapper\Packages\

For Visual Studio 2008 on 64 bit:

%PROGRAMFILES(X86)%\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Bootstrapper\Packages\

For Visual Studio 2005 on 32 bit:

%PROGRAMFILES%C:\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\BootStrapper\Packages\

For Visual Studio 2008 on 64 bit:

%PROGRAMFILES(X86)%\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\BootStrapper\Packages\

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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.