VS2015 - Visual Studio Installer: No Dependencies Detected and Will Not Be Created

Question

Trying to create an installation project in Visual Studio 2015. When I add my main project, no dependencies are added; not my other projects (dlls), nor Nuget packages, not even the .NET Framework.

I tried to add these project DLLs manually, but regardless of whether I execute it or not, I get this build error every time:

------ Starting pre-build validation for project 'ProjectInstaller' ------ ERROR: An error occurred while validating. HRESULT = '80070057' ------ Pre-build validation for project 'ProjectInstaller' completed ------ 

It should be noted that this error appears only at the output, and not in the list of errors. So, any ideas why dependencies are not added? Why is the assembly not working? What does this error code mean?

(As an afterthought, I successfully created the installation file on another set of solutions, I think maybe these are some settings in my project properties).

Answer 1

I studied your problem a bit. I found a similar situation similar to you. try these links

http://www.tylerforsythe.com/2013/10/could-not-load-file-or-assembly-hresult-0x80070057-e_invalidarg/

https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/352c58ec-65d8-4d77-ac7b-d2338c621ef3/could-not-load-file-or-assembly-the-parameter-is-incorrect-hresult- 0x80070057-einvalidarg? Forum = csharpide