“Unable to update dependencies of the project” after committing to Subversion

Question

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 dependenci

Answer 1

The problem may be caused by orphaned files in the "Deployable" -> "File" section of the .vdproj file. You can verify this by removing all files from the setup project in Visual Studio (make a backup first). If you open the .vdproj file with a text editor and still see entries in the "File" section you have this problem. You can note the keys of these files and remove them from the original .vdproj file and it should work again.

Alternatively compile this quick fix program (tested only with Visual Studio 2010):

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.IO;

class Program {
    static void Main(string[] args) {
        try {
            if (args.Length == 0) {
                Console.WriteLine("FixVDProj ");
                return;
            }

            if (!File.Exists(args[0])) {
                throw new Exception("File " + args[0] + " does not exist!");
            }

            string[] strarSource = File.ReadAllLines(args[0]);
            List listDest = new List();
            List listKnownKeys = new List();

            int iSection = 0;
            bool bAccept = true;
            bool bNeedFix = false;

            foreach (string strLine in strarSource) {
                switch (iSection) {
                    case 0:
                        if (strLine.Trim() == "\"DeployProject\"") {
                            listDest.Add(strLine);
                            iSection++;
                        } else {
                            throw new Exception("\"DeployProject\" not found");
                        }
                        break;

                    case 1:
                        if (strLine.Trim() == "\"Hierarchy\"") {
                            iSection++;
                        }
                        listDest.Add(strLine);
                        break;

                    case 2:
                        if (strLine.Trim().StartsWith("\"MsmKey\" = ")) {
                            int p = strLine.IndexOf('=');
                            string strMsm = strLine.Substring(p + 1).Trim();
                            if (strMsm.StartsWith("\"8:") && strMsm.EndsWith("\"")) {
                                listKnownKeys.Add(strMsm.Substring(3, strMsm.Length - 4));
                            } else {
                                throw new Exception("Invalid MsmKey " + strMsm);
                            }
                        } else if (strLine.Trim() == "\"Deployable\"") {
                            iSection++;
                        }
                        listDest.Add(strLine);
                        break;

                    case 3:
                        if (strLine.Trim() == "\"File\"") {
                            iSection++;
                        }
                        listDest.Add(strLine);
                        break;

                    case 4:
                        if (strLine.Trim() == "{") {
                            iSection++;
                        }
                        listDest.Add(strLine);
                        break;

                    case 5:
                        if (strLine.Trim() == "}") {
                            listDest.Add(strLine);
                            iSection = -1;  // finished
                        } else if (strLine.Trim().StartsWith("\"") && strLine.Contains(':')) {
                            int p = strLine.IndexOf(':');
                            string strKey = strLine.Substring(p + 1, strLine.Length - p - 2);
                            if (listKnownKeys.Contains(strKey)) {
                                Console.WriteLine("Accepted key " + strKey);
                                bAccept = true;
                                listDest.Add(strLine);
                            } else {
                                Console.WriteLine("Invalid key " + strKey + " removed");
                                bAccept = false;
                                bNeedFix = true;
                            }
                        } else if (strLine.Trim() == "{") {
                            if (bAccept) {
                                listDest.Add(strLine);
                            }
                            iSection++;
                        } else {
                            listDest.Add(strLine);
                        }
                        break;

                    case 6:
                    case 7:
                    case 8:
                    case 9:
                        if (strLine.Trim() == "{") {
                            iSection++;
                        } else if (strLine.Trim() == "}") {
                            iSection--;
                        }
                        if (bAccept) {
                            listDest.Add(strLine);
                        }
                        break;

                    case 10:
                        throw new Exception("File structure depth exceeded!");

                    default:
                        listDest.Add(strLine);
                        break;
                }
            }

            if (bNeedFix) {
                File.Copy(args[0], args[0] + ".bak", true);
                File.WriteAllLines(args[0], listDest);
                Console.WriteLine("File " + args[0] + " has been fixed!");
            } else {
                Console.WriteLine("File " + args[0] + " did not need fix!");
            }

        } catch (Exception e) {
            Console.WriteLine(e.ToString());
        }
    }
}