Everyone's favourite error message

[Michael Cutter]

Hi everyone -

I've Googled this before posting and just got pages and pages of results
back - it seems a common problem but not of the posted fixes seemed to work
for me, so here I am.
I've written an application in VB.Net 2005 which uses Business Objects
Crystal Reports XI to output data. I've also put together an Installshield
project to install the merge modules or whatever they're called, and this
should copy over all the Crystal .Net libraries referenced in my app.
During the install a user received "Error 2908 - Could not register
component" which seems from what I can make out to be related to the .Net
framework installation. I had them uninstall and remove the .Net Framework
2.0 and reinstalled it from the redist package dotnetfx. That didn't work.
I've been to their office and manually removed the .Net framework as per
some instructions I found
(http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/2005/04/16/408856.aspx) and then
reinstall and that didn't work either. Reinstalling from either the redist
or just running my Installshield setup program results in the same message
every time.

Some MS Knowledgebase articles pointed me to the Windows Installer cleanup
tool, but I can't run that either because I get the same error as in my
setup program, 2908 with a GUID after it. Basically I'm at a complete
standstill and I've not a clue where to look next. Any suggestions anyone
might have would be very welcome indeed.

Thanks in advance
Michael

 

[Jim Rand]

This does not answer your question but do take a look at the reporting tools
from Developer Express. I selected those for reports instead of Crystal
because it is a pure .NET assembly. No old age com objects.

Jim Rand

 

[Michael Cutter]

Jim -

Thanks - I will do that. I was under the impression that version XI of
Crystal was .NET anyway. It has obvious names like
Crystal.Engine.Report.Document and seems to be setup for both COM and .NET.
However, this program has installed quite happily on 200-odd systems, just
not this one and about three others. Further suggestions would be welcome
too!

Thanks
Michael