Visual Studio 2012 has stopped when building InstallShield Setup ?

[jophyjob]

Hello All ,
When i build new installshield setup for my WPF / .NET 4.0 application it give error message -6213 Internal build error or stops vs 2012 . The solution have 37 projects ( including WPF and SL ) .

I see one link (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9236777/internal-build-error-with-installshield-2011-le-within-visual-studio-2010-wpf) as this linke say we also using prism . same error is happening , link is old (feb 2012) is any progress in that error . Because we now using Wix, main reason to switch to InstallShield is Dependency Scanning option . The solution link specified telling to disable it , is any other option to do this ?

with regards
jophy

[chiranjeevi]

Hello,

As this error is specific to .NET dependency scanning, the only known workaround currently is to turn off the .NET dependency scanning functionality as mentioned in below kb article:
http://kb.flexerasoftware.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalID=Q109089

As a workaround you may try adding dependent files manually :

Please follow below steps:
1>Scan for dependencies - right click project primary output, select Dependencies from scan at build.
2>You will see the dependencies you will have to manually add, indicated by a red icon,unchecked them so you could get rid of the -6248 warnings(if any shown)
3>Then (yes) manually add the dependencies you identified above in the step 2.

Hope this helps.

Thanks
Chiranjeevi

[jophyjob]

Hello chiranjeevi,
Thank you for the answer. Sorry for late replay . Do you have any idea when this error will be fixed .

With regards
jophy

[notlogan]

jop,

I scan for .net 4.5 and don't get that error. It installs 4.5 on my target computer with no problem. I won't install SQL Server Express but that is a different issue. I tried InstallShield Professional demo and I did get a similar error. I never got an answer so I uninstalled InstallShield and started looking around for install solutions that actually work.