Building Visual Studio Setup/Deploy project asks to install 2010 shell integrated

I actually found a solution to this now over at Microsoft's Visual Studio Developer Community (Quoted relevant parts to prevent the likelihood of future dead links):

1- Open a cmd as admin.

2- Go to directory C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\microsoft shared\MSI Tools

3- run: regsvr32.exe /u mergemod.dll"

4- run: regsvr32.exe mergemod.dll"

I followed these steps, restarted VS2017 and it worked perfectly. No more request for the VS2010 Integrated Shell installer!