Hello ,
Yesterday , When building the setup project , I received the following error :
“Unable to update the dependencies of the project. The dependencies for the object ‘ name.dll ‘ cannot be determined..”
Also trying to Refresh Dependencies was not successful :
“The operation can not be completed.”
This problem occurs when .VDPROJ file is corrupted , to resolve this bug , you may follow these steps :
1) Open .VDPROJ file with a text editor :
2)Find “Hierarchy” & “File” Sections and Delete everything in them ,
3)Delete “Project Primary Output” And Add it again.
4)Reload the project .
5)Rebuild the project.
If the above solution did not work , you may need to DELETE the setup project and create it from the scratch.
Note : This BUG occured on a machine having Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite Edition with SP1 Installed .
This BUG is reported here :
http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=119625
Microsoft has also published a hotfix that can be found here :
In this article , the author mentined that :
“This problem may occur when you have a Database Project and a Setup Project in the same solution”
But Keep in mind that this problem may occur even if the solution does not contain any Database Project , So the above quotation is not the accurate cause of the issue.
