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

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"  wrote in message 
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> 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 -

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


"Jim Rand"  wrote in message 
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> 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"  wrote in message 
> news:exP89iF2HHA.4672@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>> 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
>>
>
>