问题
I've written a Crystal Report Viewer in VB .NET (VS 2013).
It works fine for the most part, but I found on certain PCs I was faced with the error:
The type initializer for 'CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.CRPE threw and exception
So after a long trial and error (and an incredible degree of google searching) I found out CrystalReports for VB has a dependency with Visual C++ 2005 Redistribution.
So I got the merged modules and incorporated them with my installer. Only to find out that I need specific '8.0.50727.762' versions that came with the ATL Security Update. Not '8.0.50727.42' that I had. So I had to install Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio 2005 in order to get these new updated merged modules!
Only to find I'm faced with the same error.
The merged modules are as follows:
Visual C++ 8.0 OpenMP
Visual C++ 8.0 MFC
Visual C++ 8.0 MFCLOC
Visual C++ 8.0 CRT
Visual C++ 8.0 ATL
SAP Crystal Reports runtime engine for .NET Framework 4 (CRRuntime_12_0_16.msm)
(I also have the corresponding policy .MSM's) After I run the installer and run the program, I get the error.
If I immediately install the Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Service Pack 1 Redistributable Package ATL Security Update
The program works fine.
Does anyone have any knowledge of getting these merged modules to install this VC++ redistribution?
Program, merged modules and reidstribution are all 32-bit X86.
I'm using VS 2013 with InstallShield LE. Thanks.
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36056217/visual-c-2005-merged-modules-not-installing