Summary

One of the various errors in the IDE trying to work with the old Visual Studio Setup project (vdproj)

Symptoms

Message displays when trying to import a Visual Studio setup or merge module project (.vdproj) into an InstallShield Basic MSI or Merge Module project (.ism).
ISDEV : fatal error -9088: InstallShield does not have support for converting Visual Studio Web Setup projects into InstallShield projects.

Cause

This error occurs if you attempt to import or convert a Visual Studio Web setup project in InstallShield, since InstallShield does not have support for this conversion. If you encounter this type of error, consider creating a new project in InstallShield and using the Internet Information Services view to manage an IIS Web site on a target system.

Related Documents

For the complete list of Visual Studio project related errors see the HelpNet article:
Visual Studio Project Import Errors and Warnings