Hi

I have a Setup project and if i change the "Localization" property an Error message occurs "Property value is not valid" and detail message shows an ExternalException.

If I activate all devices on PC-device manager and reopen Visual Studio 2008 every thing is fine.But if I deactivate my floppy device and restart VS2008 the error occur again.

I read some times ago an corresponding article, but I don’t found it anymore.This article told something about an VB configuration file which hold the enabled devices during installation.And I should remove the disabled device from this file, but I have no idea where this file is?

Any ideas?

Thanks

Hi SvenK,

Do you mean the floppy device cause the Localization property change problem? This is quite strange and we have never met such kind of problem before. Please try to disable your floppy device in BIOS level instead of OS level to see if it fix the problem. Actually Visual Studio doesn't has floppy device requirement.

Sincerely,
Kira Qian

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Ok, now I have a new PC without floppy or card readers and nor disabled device and I get the same error on change the Localization property of the setup project.

So I have always to restart VS2008 :(

The solution was converted from VS2005 for many months.

The setup project fileSetupRheo3000.vdprojis checked out from source control provider "Source Hero" and is NOT read-only.

It is strange because sometimes it works one or two times.

I changed the language for example from English to German.

Error:

Properties Window with message:

Property value is not valid

andDetail:

Exception of type 'System.Runtime.InteropServices.ExternalException' was thrown.

Any Ideas how to solve this problem?

Sven Kuehne