Posts Tagged ‘setup’

An error occurred while validating. HRESULT = ’80004005′

Posted by: admin in .NET, Deployment, Exception on July 27th, 2010

An error occurred while validating. HRESULT = ’80004005′, this error just came up when I’m trying to organize my .Net Project files in my Solution, I removed some of the projects and just use the compiled dll in referencing to the main Project. However, this error has appeared during rebuilding the setup project and it took some of my time to find the solution or the cause.

So, what I did was I removed all References from the Target Primary Output project and added them and rebuilding it again , :) that’s it no more errors.


“Thank you for reporting this issue. We were able to reproduce the problem and have identified the root cause. The problem is caused by cross-solution project reference between Solution1 and Solution2. From the attached project, the project “WindowsFormApplication1” in Solution2 references a project that is not in Solution2 (it references ClassLibrary1 from Solution1). To fix the error, the workaround is to copy the ClassLibrary1 project to Solution2 and re-add the reference to ClassLibrary1 within its own solution.


Project-to-project references only works within the same solution. If you have to split into two solutions and split the code for your class library into two projects, you need to also split the project that references the class library into two projects (one for each solution) in order to avoid project references outside the current solution.

I hope this helps.

Candy Chiang
Program Manager – Visual Studio”

For more information and explanation about this error just click here

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How to get msi setup file location using installer class

Posted by: admin in .NET, Deployment on June 21st, 2010

To get the current msi setup path,

  1. Goto the setup project
  2. Right click and select view->custom actions
  3. Under Install Node, click the “primary output from….”
  4. Press F4 to show its property
  5. Add the /Source=[SourceDir] to the CustomActionData property
  6. Can then be access through the installer class

Context.Parameters(“Source”)

Source Path Custom Action

Source Path Custom Action


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The install location for prerequisites has not been set to

Posted by: admin in .NET, Deployment on June 9th, 2010

Follow this steps to solve this problem:
Update the Package Data

  1. Open the [Program Files]\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Bootstrapper\Packages\DotNetFx35SP1 folder or %ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Bootstrapper\Packages\DotNetFx35SP1 on x64 operating systems
  2. Edit the Product.xml file in Notepad.
  3. Paste the following into the < PackageFiles > element:
  4. Find the element for < PackageFile Name=”dotNetFX30\XPSEPSC-x86-en-US.exe” and change the PublicKey value to:
    3082010A0282010100A2DB0A8DCFC2C1499BCDAA3A34AD23596BDB6CBE2122B79
    4C8EAAEBFC6D526C232118BBCDA5D2CFB36561E152BAE8F0DDD14A36E284C7F163
    F41AC8D40B146880DD98194AD9706D05744765CEAF1FC0EE27F74A333CB74E5EFE
    361A17E03B745FFD53E12D5B0CA5E0DD07BF2B7130DFC606A2885758CB7ADBC85E
    817B490BEF516B6625DED11DF3AEE215B8BAF8073C345E3958977609BE7AD77C13
    78D33142F13DB62C9AE1AA94F9867ADD420393071E08D6746E2C61CF40D5074412
    FE805246A216B49B092C4B239C742A56D5C184AAB8FD78E833E780A47D8A4B2842
    3C3E2F27B66B14A74BD26414B9C6114604E30C882F3D00B707CEE554D77D208557
    6810203010001
  5. Find the element for < PackageFile Name=”dotNetFX30\XPSEPSC-amd64-en-US.exe” and change the PublicKey value to the same as in step 4 above
  6. Save the product.xml file

Download and Extract the Core Installation Files

  1. Navigate to the following URL: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?LinkID=118080
  2. Download the dotNetFx35.exe file to your local disk.
  3. Open a Command Prompt window and change to the directory to which you downloaded dotNetFx35.exe.
  4. At the command prompt, type:

dotNetFx35.exe /x:.

This will extract the Framework files to a folder named “WCU” in the current directory.
Copy the contents of the WCU\dotNetFramework folder and paste them in the %Program Files%\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Bootstrapper\Packages\DotNetFx35SP1 folder (%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Bootstrapper\Packages\DotNetFx35SP1 on x64 operating systems).

Note: Do not copy the WCU\dotNetFramework folder itself. There should be 5 folders under the WCU folder, and each of these should now appear in the DotNetFx35SP1 folder. The folder structure should resemble the following: DotNetFx35SP1 (folder)

    • dotNetFX20 (folder
    • dotNetFX30 (folder)
    • dotNetFX35 (folder)
    • dotNetMSP (folder)
    • TOOLS folder)
    • en (or some other localized folder)
    • dotNetFx35setup.exe (file)

You may now delete the files and folders you downloaded and extracted in steps 2 and 4.

You can read more on the attached readme file.

VS 2008 SP1 Readme

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