Error with Windows Installer … “Unable to get installer types”

Question

I\'m experiencing an error when using the windows installer to install an event source in a product I am deploying.

The error message I receive states the following

Answer 1

The "Detected Dependencies" of your setup project are not up to date. In my case refreshing the dependencies does not work. Due to adding an dll to the setup project dependencies visual studio refreshed them all. After rebuilding the setup project and the error didn't occurred any more!