Visual Studio Unable to find dependencies for the Setup project

Question

I have a problem while building a solution that contains a WinForms project, using VS2017 Pro 15.8.6 - my Setup project failed on pre-build validation.

This is the message I get in the Output:

------ Starting pre-build validation for project 'Setup' ------ WARNING: Unable to find dependency 'COMMON.LOGGING' (Signature='AF08829B84F0328E' Version='3.0.0.0') of assembly 'Spring.Services.dll' WARNING: Unable to find dependency 'SPRING.CORE' (Signature='65E474D141E25E07' Version='2.0.1.45000') of assembly 'Spring.Services.dll' WARNING: Unable to find dependency 'COMMON.LOGGING.CORE' (Signature='AF08829B84F0328E' Version='3.0.0.0') of assembly 'Spring.Services.dll' WARNING: Unable to find dependency 'COMMON.LOGGING' (Signature='AF08829B84F0328E' Version='3.0.0.0') of assembly 'Spring.Data.dll' WARNING: Unable to find dependency 'COMMON.LOGGING.CORE' (Signature='AF08829B84F0328E' Version='3.0.0.0') of assembly 'Spring.Data.dll' WARNING: Unable to find dependency 'SPRING.AOP' (Signature='65E474D141E25E07' Version='2.0.1.45000') of assembly 'Spring.Data.dll' WARNING: Unable to find dependency 'SPRING.CORE' (Signature='65E474D141E25E07' Version='2.0.1.45000') of assembly 'Spring.Data. dll' ERROR: An error occurred while validating. HRESULT = '80131509' ------ Pre-build validation for project 'Setup' completed ------ ------ Build started: Project: Setup, Configuration: Debug ------ ========== Build: 9 succeeded, 1 failed, 23 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========

Because of it I have no any files at my output folder. I found a solution "uncheck “Allow parallel project initialization”", but it doesn't work for me.

Answer 1

In my case the problem was , that i mixed up the build config(from visual studio) and the 'primary project output'(of the setup project).

I resetup the 'primery output'of the project and checked if my config 'Release| Any Cpu' fits the setup 'project output'

setup prj primery output

visual studio config