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SPerkins
SPerkins

Reputation: 31

Visual Studio 2015 msi build initiates another installation

I'm trying to build an msi project in my VS2015 solution. I had installed the VS Installer Projects Extension.

Everything was working great just a few days ago. Now, however, when I try to build any msi it seems another installer package initiates. First it was SSMS 2008 R2 installer. Similar to this msdn question: Problem building setup project in Visual Studio 2008

I uninstalled all my sql instances other than 2016.

Now I still get the same behavior but with the Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Shell (integrated mode) installer running.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 974

Answers (3)

Stein Åsmul
Stein Åsmul

Reputation: 42126

Self-Repair: What you are seeing is Windows Installer Self-Repair (also known as resiliency or self-healing). Essentially Windows Installer detectes that the wrong file or resource is on disk or in the registry and starts a a repair operation to correct the situation. Failing to correct the situation (for various technical reasons described below), this process may repeat itself endlessly whenever an application is launcher or a COM server is invoked, or a file association is triggered (and a few other triggers).

Here is a previous answer which describes the essence in a minimal sense: Why does the MSI installer reconfigure if I delete a file?

Self-Repair In Detail: More than anyone wants to know about self-repair:

  1. Self-repair - explained
  2. Self-repair - finding real-world solutions
  3. Self-repair - how to avoid it in your own package

Upvotes: 0

user2916435
user2916435

Reputation: 31

I had the same problem with VS 2015 asking for VS 2008 installation package.

Found this which solved my problem:

  1. Open a cmd as admin.

  2. Go to directory C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\microsoft shared\MSI Tools

  3. run: regsvr32.exe /u mergemod.dll"

  4. run: regsvr32.exe mergemod.dll"

Link to the hint

Upvotes: 3

SPerkins
SPerkins

Reputation: 31

Thanks @stuartd and @PhilDW for your help. Posting the answer here in case someone else experiences this. Your suggestion in turning on Logging gave me more to search on.

I had to install Orca from the Windows SDK to update a DLL.

Found the answer here

Upvotes: 0

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