What do Yellow Warning Triangles mean on Dependencies in Visual Studio 2017?
As trite as it sounds, try rebuilding then restarting VS – and get on with your day 🙂
As trite as it sounds, try rebuilding then restarting VS – and get on with your day 🙂
I was having same issue in VS 2017. You would need to enable proxy settings for VS, so that it can use existing IE proxy to reach out internet. This is especially useful, for those users, who uses office laptops and proxy settings are managed by group policies and IE settings get updated automatically. It … Read more
The answer from Nick is very helpful, but I still failed at SSDT-Setup-ENU.exe /repair with the same error Error 0x800703e9: Failed to execute EXE package.. Then I tried it with a very straightforward way: (Disable UserAccountControl first) copy SSDT-Setup-ENU.exe to c:\temp and execute SSDT-Setup-ENU.exe /layout to download a local copy of the bundle. open C:\temp\redist … Read more
You can’t run that redistributable as a custom action because it’s an MSI-based install, and you cannot run recursive MSI installs (yours calling the VC redist one). In Visual Studio setup projects you’re supposed to use the Prerequisites feature. Right-click the setup project in Solution Explorer, choose Properties, then Prerequisites. This will build a setup.exe … Read more
UPDATE: It looks like the issue might be a managed code custom action failing in the MSI in question (.NET code that can’t run – for whatever reason 1, 2, 3). Suggestion I would first try to 1) do the reboot I recommend below – to clear the air and release any locks – then … Read more