The type initializer for CrystalDecisions CrystalReports Engine ReportDocument threw an exception

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I am deploying a desktop application to my clients that uses the Crystal Reports API to display and print forms  I am building my installer using InstallShield 2012  I have also included the  NET 4 0 Framework along with all of the Crystal assemblies  I have 2  kinda related  concerns   1  Whenever I tried to run the application on the client machine  I get the following error   The type initializer for  CrystalDecisions CrystalReports Engine ReportDocument         threw an exception    I have no idea what I am forgetting here  The CrystalDecisions CrystalReports Engine dll is being registered in the GAC correctly  as are about 10 other Crystal assemblies    2  I have asked this question on the SAP forums  and I was told I needed to include the  NET 2 0 Framework along with the  NET 4 0 Framework  I tried including the  NET 2 0 redistributable in my installer package  but the installer does not install it  Does the installer see that I have 4 0 installed  so it skips the 2 0 installation

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if you are using visual studio   enable the build property  Prefer 32-bit   see image below

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Project Properties - gt  Compile - gt  Target CPU - gt  Any CPU And uncheck Prefer 32 bit Done

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As  M A  Hanin  said above  it can caused by an InnerException like this    Unrecognized configuration section userSettings   C  Users Pourakbar h AppData Local Accounting Accounting vshost exe Url a4h1gnabohiu4wgiejk0d21rc2kbwr4g 1 0 0 0 user config line 3     and I deleted the folder  C  Users Pourakbar h AppData Local Accounting Accounting vshost exe Url a4h1gnabohiu4wgiejk0d21rc2kbwr4g from my computer and that worked for me

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I had a similar error recently with the log4net error      Could not load file or assembly  log4net  Version 1 2 10 0    Culture neutral  PublicKeyToken 692fbea5521e1304    This was on a 64bit machine but I d only installed the 32bit runtime     Making sure the build was targeting only x86 worked for me

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Here is what worked for me   If you are installing on a 64-bit machine  make sure the application properties under the Build tab have  Any CPU  as the platform target  and unselect the check box for  Prefer 32-bit  if you have the option   Crystal is very touchy about 32 64 bit assemblies  and makes some pretty counterintuitive assumptions which are very difficult to troubleshoot

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The type initializer for  CrystalDecisions CrystalReports Engine ReportDocument threw an exception  I changed the target platform from x86 to Any CPU and it resolved the issue

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I had similar message and after several searches online and doing all suggestions  nothing helped  Finally I found the solution  In my IIS server  under the application pool advance option  there is an option for  Enable 32-Bit Applications  - that was changed from false to true and after restarting IIS server  My program started generating pdf files

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I had the same problem and I solved it installing both crystal Report Runtime 32 and 64 bit both version

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This is because of lack of Capability      If you see the Inner Exception you will see this message    Access is denied  Access to speech functionality requires ID CAP SPEECH RECOGNITION to be defined in the manifest     So to get rid of this exception  turn on the capability for Speech Recognition from the Manifest file   I had the same problem  and It solved my Problem

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Check the properties of your projectm the platform target  Install the corresponding version of Crystal Reports   To x86  gt  CRforVS redist install 32bit To x64  gt  CRforVS redist install 64bit

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The inner exception of bug says Could not load file or assembly  log4net  Version 1 2 10 0  Culture neutral  PublicKeyToken 692fbea5521e1304   Changing the AppPool setting False for Enable 32-bit Application solved the issue

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When a static constructor throws an exception  it is wrapped inside a TypeInitializationException  You need to check the exception object s InnerException property to see the actual exception   In a staging   production environment  where you don t have Visual Studio installed   you ll need to either    Trace Log the exception and its InnerException  recursively   Add an event handler to the AppDomain UnhandledException event  and put your logging tracing code there  Use System Diagnostics Debug WriteLine for tracing  or a logger  log4net  ETW   DbgView  a Sysinternals tool  can be used to view the Debug WriteLine trace  Use a production debugger  such as WinDbg or NTSD  to diagnose the exception  Use Visual Studio s Remote Debugging to diagnose the exception  enabling you to debug the code on the target computer from your own development computer

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I faced the same issue  The target platform was Any CPU in my case  But the checkbox  Prefer-32Bit  was checked   Unchecking the same resolved the issue

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What did the trick for me was to change the target machine from    ANY CPU    to    x64    or maybe in your case    x86    depending in your target machine   s architecture  I would try this first before moving into a more complex solution which indicates a more complex problem

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Download cr redist 2005 or 2008 which is your tool  or copy from C  Program Files Microsoft Visual Studio 8 SDK v2 0 BootStrapper Packages CrystalReports Download c   redist 2005 or 2008 which is your tool  Install both and restart your system Problem solved

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For one full day i searched online and i found a solution on my own  The same scenario  the application works fine in developer machine but when deployed it is throwing the exception  crystaldecisions crystalreports engine reportdocument threw an exception  Details  sys io filenotfoundexcep   crystaldecisions reportappserver commlayer version 13 0 2000 is missing  My IDE  MS VS 2010 Ultimate  CR V13 0 10  Solution    i set x86 for my application  then i set x64 for my setup application Prerequisite  i Placed the supporting CR runtime file CRRuntime 32bit 13 0 10 msi  CRRuntime 64bit 13 0 10 msi in the following directory C  Program Files  x86  Microsoft SDKs Windows v7 0A Bootstrapper Packages Crystal Reports for  NET Framework 4 0 Include merge module file to the setup project  Here is version is not serious thing because i use 13 0 10 soft  13 0 16 merge module file File i included  CRRuntime 13 0 16 msm This file is found one among the set msm files    While installing this Merge module will add the necessary dll in the following dir C  Program Files  x86  SAP BusinessObjects Crystal Reports for  NET Framework 4 0 Common SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4 0 win32 x86 dotnet  dll file version will not cause any issues   In your developer machine you confirm it same   I need reputation points  if this answer is useful kindly mark it useful  1

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I was not getting the error on 32-bit machines but was on 64-bit so I changed the target platform from x86 to Any CPU and it resolved the issue

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I got a problem The type Initializer   my config file resolved it    i forgot to have a connection element like this  connectionStrings     connectionStrings  maybe it depends on what you did in a code  my error is i cant open a class because of this connection element

[c#] The type initializer for 'CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.ReportDocument' threw an exception

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