Type initializer for threw an exception


I thought of sharing this information to others as  it may help someone having the same issues .I have an application which is done in vb .net . It works fine when run from source. This application is a dll bases and it uses crystal report. Everything worked fine with the source.

But the real problem started when I compiled the source to exe and dll .In the compiled version whenever a dll in this application is called form an exe it was throwing an exception as “type initializer for threw an exception”, I googled a lot and found that this issues is due to missing of crystal report files in the clinet machine or Live Pc.

Note: This error can also happed due to some missing files, in my case it was Crystal reports’s supporting files. You can get more details about the missing reference from the stack trace which will be available in the exception.

The solution for this issue was to download and apply the crystal Report redistributable pack, which is relevant for your OS platform where the Application is running. We can get these packs from the below site of crystal report.

http://resources.businessobjects.com/support/additional_downloads/runtime.asp#09

Since my application was compiled in VS 2008, i downloaded the Crystal Reports Basic for Visual Studio .NET 2008

As per the version of crystal report used in your application ,you have to download the respective redistributable package.