CorBindToRuntimeEx fails with 0x80131700

[abhimanyu]

Hi,

I 've created a shim dll in VC++ that wraps a .NET assembly AddIn for
Excel.
The AddIn works fine on my system but throws an error when I install it
on a fresh machine with .NET Framework 2.0 and MSXML 6.0.

I get HRESULT 0x80131700 when I try to call CorBindToRuntimeEx() to
load the .NET Runtime from inside the shim dll.
Any ideas about software or updates that I have to install ?

regards