"Unable to update dependencies of the project" after committing to Subversion

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I have a setup project in .NET. When I save the project and the other projects to subversion, the setup project no longer compiles. I get the error "Unable to update dependencies of the project."

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13 Answers

I've had the same issue, but none of the mentioned resolutions seemed to work for me. Rebuilding the setup project would work, but it is a pain, since we include the project outputs of 30+ projects.

The thing I found to work is a very similar approach to what @Marc did.

  1. I noted which dependencies were reported by Visual Studio as errors
  2. Edit the .vdproj file in Notepad++
  3. Search for the .dll that is giving issues. You will see a "ScatterAssemblies" section. If it is empty, delete the whole dll reference
  4. Save file

In all cases I had multiple references to the same dll (not sure how this happened)

Example of correct reference:

"{9F6F8455-1EF1-4B85-886A-4223BCC8E7F7}:_11EC89A306FFB83A269ACC2BF8D8462B"
{
"AssemblyRegister" = "3:1"
"AssemblyIsInGAC" = "11:FALSE"
"AssemblyAsmDisplayName" = "8:Some.OrOther.Lib, Version=1.601.4042.16978, Culture=neutral, processorArchitecture=MSIL"
                "ScatterAssemblies"
                {
                                "_11EC89A306FFB83A269ACC2BF8D8462B"
                                {
                                "Name" = "8:Some.OrOther.Lib.dll"
                                "Attributes" = "3:512"
                                }
                }
"SourcePath" = "8:Some.OrOther.Lib.dll"
"TargetName" = "8:"
"Tag" = "8:"
"Folder" = "8:_79891234C744498C83755DDEA682F0BF"
"Condition" = "8:"
"Transitive" = "11:FALSE"
"Vital" = "11:TRUE"
"ReadOnly" = "11:FALSE"
"Hidden" = "11:FALSE"
"System" = "11:FALSE"
"Permanent" = "11:FALSE"
"SharedLegacy" = "11:FALSE"
"PackageAs" = "3:1"
"Register" = "3:1"
"Exclude" = "11:FALSE"
"IsDependency" = "11:TRUE"
"IsolateTo" = "8:"
}

Example of incorrect reference:

"{9F6F8455-1EF1-4B85-886A-4223BCC8E7F7}:_11EC89A306FFB83A269ACC2BF8D8462B"
{
"AssemblyRegister" = "3:1"
"AssemblyIsInGAC" = "11:FALSE"
"AssemblyAsmDisplayName" = "8:Some.OrOther.Lib, Version=1.601.4042.16978, Culture=neutral, processorArchitecture=MSIL"
                "ScatterAssemblies"
                {
                }
"SourcePath" = "8:Some.OrOther.Lib.dll"
"TargetName" = "8:"
"Tag" = "8:"
"Folder" = "8:_79891234C744498C83755DDEA682F0BF"
"Condition" = "8:"
"Transitive" = "11:FALSE"
"Vital" = "11:TRUE"
"ReadOnly" = "11:FALSE"
"Hidden" = "11:FALSE"
"System" = "11:FALSE"
"Permanent" = "11:FALSE"
"SharedLegacy" = "11:FALSE"
"PackageAs" = "3:1"
"Register" = "3:1"
"Exclude" = "11:FALSE"
"IsDependency" = "11:TRUE"
"IsolateTo" = "8:"
}

I also got the same "Two or more objects have the same target location ('[targetdir]\MyAssembly.dll')" warning that @Marc got ... but the setup project compiles and runs fine.

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