I have created a mixed mode (managed + native) application that links to a
mixed mode dll. It runs fine on all XP machines with Visual Studio .Net
installed, but on other machines with the .Net framework installed but not
Visual Studio, it displays a pop-up window entitled "Common Runtime Debugging
Services," and the unhelpful message: "Application has generated an exception
that could not be handled." This happens when the application gets to the
managed-code wrapper of a function (C++) that initializes the dll
(__crt_dll_initialize) .

The error is triggered just before it enters the crt-initializing wrapper
function. It won't display a message-box window placed within the function
but before the initialization. Try-catch does not catch the error.
Depends.exe show no missing or problematic module. The error also is
triggered when 0 is assigned to a pointer to a managed class of the dll.

Any suggestion would be appreciated.