The type initializer for 'CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.ReportDocument'

.NET
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Hello Sitepointers,

I’ve got this problem for a week now, hopefully anyone can help me.

I’m using Visual Studio 2005 and Crystal Reports XI Release 2 and deploying on a Windows Server 2008 x64 with IIS 7.0 (running on x86).

The stupid thing is, everything was running fine, untill I’ve had to reinstall Windows XP on the developer machine. Now I can not get it running again.

This is the error I’ve got on my deployment server:

The type initializer for ‘CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.ReportDocument’ threw an exception. —> Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {5EFA39FA-B2C4-4A6E-84D6-C3333D1A3D07} failed due to the following error: 80040154.

Apperently it cannot find the appropiate dll’s.
The applications which are working (before my reinstall of windows xp) the dll’s in the references of the project are in the c:\windows\assembly folder.
Now with my fresh install the dll’s references are looking in this folder: C:\Program Files\Business Objects\Common\3.5\managed\dotnet2\CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.dll.

How can I get my project references to look in the c:\windows\assembly folder?

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Its a COM DLL, not .NET so it shouldn’t look in the global assembly cache. Did you reinstall the crystal reports runtime when you reinstalled XP?

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Thanks, you’re right.

I’ve had to install an other redist. package, it was located here:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\BootStrapper\Packages\CrystalReports\CrystalRedist115_x86.msi

Now it works, but It’s still strange that previously it all worked fine without this package installed.

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Probably got installed with another application that wasn’t reinstalled on the dev machine.