ISEXP : fatal error 0

[marcoden]

Trying to build an InstallShield 2013 Express installer and receiving a ISEXP : fatal error 0. No warnings - no explaination. This is obviously a bug. Anyone else run into this?

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ISEXP : fatal error 0:
Express\SingleImage - 1 error(s), 0 warning(s)
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[Carl_Haynie]

Yes, I ran into this today. What I did to get around it was increment my version numbers on any applicable resource files and bump the version number shown in the setup project's general information. Did a rebuild of the setup project and voila. Hope that works for you. No idea how the setup project got corrupted in the first place.

[marcoden]

This morning. I restructured the features in my install and viola, the error went away. Apparently there was an element in the "parent feature" that was also in a "child feature". Seems like there should be a better way of handling this error.

Anyway, thanks for your suggestion I might need it some other time.