No file was supplied for reference XXX.dacpac; deployment might fail

Question

I have a DacPac project that references several other dacpac projects. The referencing dacpac builds into an application directory that is harvested into a Wix Installer using Parrafin. All the referencing and referenced projects build fine. Multiple times today, when I attempted to deploy my referencing dacpac database, I got several an instance of this error per reference:

No file was supplied for reference XXX.dacpac; deployment might fail.

So far, I have:

• checked the installation directory: found none of the referenced dacpacs present.
• cleaned and rebuilt the dacpacs: No issues
• compared database project settings between these dacpacs and others that work as expected
• rebuilt the Wix installer again in case it was a fluke

Answer 1

The rest of my application has a platform target of x86 so I changed the referencing dacpac project's platform target to from AnyCPU to x86 and it instantly worked as expected.