Registry is not supported on this platform

System.TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for '' threw an exception.

 ---> System.PlatformNotSupportedException: Registry is not supported on this platform.

This rarely-seen issue, relates to checks made to ensure that the Visual C++ Redistributable are installed.

If you are seeing this issue, please install Visual C++ - both x86 and x64 versions are required on x64 machines.