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Re: Re: Re: VS2008 Web Setup Project Build Fails

Russ Waltz — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:42:42 GMT

I'm having the same problem! Mine is a Windows Service project. I guess I will move it to a VS2005 solution. Grrrrr... Luckily (or unlickily depending on how you look at it) my app is already split int 2 separate VS2005/VS2008 solutions since I have some BizTalk projects and some .NET 3.5 projects. At least I don't have to create a new VS2005 solution for it... Come on, when is this gonna be fixed???

Re: Re: VS2008 Web Setup Project Build Fails

Mike Lawton — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:27:42 GMT

It's not just web setup projects... I've got a Setup project for a Windows Service which suffered the same symptoms and I spent the last 2-3 hours pulling out my hair, trying to make any sense of it.

What killed me is that I've got another project with the same scenario that works in VS2008... I believe I upgraded it some time ago from VS2005 to VS2008. I also think it's targeting .NET 2.0 only and not .NET 3.5... perhaps that's the difference. I compared them side by side and could not find a difference in installer classes, setup project, etc.

My solution was giving me the now dreaded "1 successful, 1 failed", with no error text. I tried setting the output to Detailed and ultimately to Diagnostic... still nothing indicating where an error might have occured.

I even went so far as to create a new Windows Service (WindowsService1, wouldn't you know!) and added zero code to it, except the installer class. I then added a new Setup Project, selected the primary output and also added the primary output as custom actions. Same result, 1 successful, 1 failed.

Google brought me here, and indeed after reading Randolpho's post, I checked the output directory. There it was, perfect in all it's glory... mocking me for being so thorough as to create a new vanilla solution but not to think to check the output directory.

It's a VS 2008 bug... perhaps to be fixed in SP1 due out this summer? I can't find a list to confirm, but can only hope.

Re: VS2008 Web Setup Project Build Fails

Randolpho — Tue, 06 May 2008 17:23:32 GMT

nosajis wrote:
I'm looking for any help I can get here. I made a very simple web project. It has four pages. I then added a web setup project to my solution and added the primary output and content.

When I right click on the setup project and say build the main project builds but the setup project fails. As far as I can tell, it just says 1 built and 1 failed. I cannot even find a reason WHY it failed.

HINTS?! Anybody know where I can even look to get more info about what failed?

Thank you - oh masters of web setup projects.

Arise, dead thread!

I'm just posting this for posterity: I had the same issue: both a web setup project *and* a CAB project would simply fail, with no reason given.

But I went to the output folder, and lo and behold, there were my project files.

I guess it's a bug in visual studio. It *does* successfully build, it just returns an error code.

wierd, huh?

Re: VS2008 Web Setup Project Build Fails

nosajis — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 14:25:57 GMT

I still have had no luck figuring out why this Web Setup fails to build. I cannot find anywhere that will give me any more descriptive output other than just 1 project failed to build.

Still looking for help if anyone has anything come to mind...

Thanks,

Jason

Re: VS2008 Web Setup Project Build Fails

nosajis — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 02:24:02 GMT

Ok, so the important part that I'm talking about is at the end of this big blob, but this is from the output window. Where else can I look for what is going wrong as this doesn't seem to be helping me at all:

This is from the output window:

------ Rebuild All started: Project: STDFReportPortal, Configuration: Release Any CPU ------

c:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5\Csc.exe /noconfig /nowarn:1701,1702 /errorreport:prompt /warn:4 /define:TRACE /reference:c:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\System.Configuration.dll /reference:"C:\Program Files\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\v3.5\System.Core.dll" /reference:"C:\Program Files\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\v3.5\System.Data.DataSetExtensions.dll" /reference:c:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\System.Data.dll /reference:"C:\Program Files\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\v3.5\System.Data.Linq.dll" /reference:c:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\System.dll /reference:c:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\System.Drawing.dll /reference:c:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\System.EnterpriseServices.dll /reference:c:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\System.Web.dll /reference:"C:\Program Files\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\v3.5\System.Web.Extensions.dll" /reference:c:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\System.Web.Mobile.dll /reference:c:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\System.Web.Services.dll /reference:c:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\System.Xml.dll /reference:"C:\Program Files\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\v3.5\System.Xml.Linq.dll" /debug:pdbonly /optimize+ /out:obj\Release\STDFReportPortal.dll /target:library ContentServer.designer.cs Default.aspx.cs Default.aspx.designer.cs EFSetup.aspx.cs EFSetup.aspx.designer.cs PRONumberLookup.aspx.cs PRONumberLookup.aspx.designer.cs ProofOfEmail.aspx.cs ProofOfEmail.aspx.designer.cs Properties\AssemblyInfo.cs Properties\Settings.Designer.cs STDFReportPortal.Master.cs STDFReportPortal.Master.designer.cs UnbilledMissingDocs.aspx.cs UnbilledMissingDocs.aspx.designer.cs

Compile complete -- 0 errors, 0 warnings

STDFReportPortal -> C:\projects\StandardForwarding\STDFReportPortal\STDFReportPortal\bin\STDFReportPortal.dll

------ Starting pre-build validation for project 'STDFReportsSetup' ------
------ Pre-build validation for project 'STDFReportsSetup' completed ------
------ Rebuild All started: Project: STDFReportsSetup, Configuration: Release ------

Building file 'C:\projects\StandardForwarding\STDFReportPortal\STDFReportsSetup\Release\STDFReportsSetup.msi'...
Packaging file 'TopBannerBg.gif'...
Packaging file 'TopBannerTitle2.gif'...
Packaging file 'ProofOfEmail.aspx'...
Packaging file 'save_ico.gif'...
Packaging file 'STDFLogo.gif'...
Packaging file 'STDFAdmin2.gif'...
Packaging file 'Web.sitemap'...
Packaging file 'Spacer.gif'...
Packaging file 'GridHeaderBg.gif'...
Packaging file 'STDFReportPortal.dll'...
Packaging file 'PRONumberLookup.aspx'...
Packaging file 'delete_ico.gif'...
Packaging file 'STDFReportPortal.Master'...
Packaging file 'GreenBg1x1.gif'...
Packaging file 'GreenBorderBg.gif'...
Packaging file 'EFSetup.aspx'...
Packaging file 'TopBannerTitle.gif'...
Packaging file 'user_ico.gif'...
Packaging file 'UnbilledMissingDocs.aspx'...
Packaging file 'stdfStyle.css'...
Packaging file 'edit_ico.gif'...
Packaging file 'Default.aspx'...
Packaging file 'plus_ico.gif'...
Packaging file 'cancel_ico.gif'...
Packaging file 'stdfSkins.skin'...
Packaging file 'checkmark_red_ico.gif'...
Packaging file 'Web.config'...
Packaging file 'OrangeBg1x1.gif'...
========== Rebuild All: 1 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 skipped ==========

Re: VS2008 Web Setup Project Build Fails

nosajis — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 02:20:02 GMT

cheong,

That's just the problem. I'm not seeing any reason for the failed build, just that one failed to build.

[C]

Re: VS2008 Web Setup Project Build Fails

cheong — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 02:16:45 GMT

Anything error messages on the "Output" window? (e.g. some path/component not found, or something cannot be written on whatever location?)