Summary

Symptoms

When building an InstallShield Express project, the following error may occur:

**Fatal Error -6225: resolving Visual Studio .NET project output [1]

[1] is a placeholder that contains the specific .NET output that could not be resolved.

Cause

This error is known to occur in the following scenarios:

1. The project does not exist in the solution.
2. The project does not contain the output specified in the error message.

Resolution

1. If the project does not exist in the solution, insert it into the solution from within Microsoft Visual Studio .NET. When both InstallShield Express and Visual Studio .NET are installed on the same machine, it's possible to build Express projects directly from within the Visual Studio .NET IDE by inserting an Express project into a solution (.sln).
2. Make sure the output specified in the error message is included in the project.