.net - An error occurred while validating. HRESULT = '8000000A'

Question

I have been receiving this error for a while when using devenv on an automatic build. I have gone through every website I can find, and the usual answers mention refreshing dependencies (Which I believe fixes it for manual deployment, but not for automatic) and removing the source control coding from the projects, which hasn't helped me.

The error does not occur every time I build, but it seems random on different deployment projects each time.

Does anyone have any advice on why exactly this error occurs and how to go about fixing it?

Answer 1

Update for those who got this issue for VS2013 or VS2015 after upgrading a VS200X setup project using the Microsoft Visual Studio Installer Projects extension.

Following the recipe for v1.0.0.0 from MS finally made it work for me:

Microsoft Visual Studio Installer Projects

Unfortunately we couldn't address all cases of the command line issue for this release as we're still investigating the appropriate way to address them. What we do have is a workaround that we believe will work for almost all of them. If you are still suffering this issue then you can try to change the DWORD value for the following registry value to 0: HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftVisualStudio12.0_ConfigMSBuildEnableOutOfProcBuild (VS2013)
or
HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftVisualStudio14.0_ConfigMSBuildEnableOutOfProcBuild (VS2015)
If this doesn't exist you can create it as a DWORD.