Represents the error that occurs when an exception is thrown inside the static constructor of a type.

See Also: TypeInitializationException Members

System.Object
     System.Exception
          System.SystemException
               System.TypeInitializationException

Thread Safety

All public static members of this type are safe for multithreaded operations. No instance members are guaranteed to be thread safe.

Remarks

When a static constructor fails to initialize a type, a TypeInitializationException instance is created and passed a reference to the exception thrown by the static constructor. The TypeInitializationException.InnerException property stores the exception that was thrown by the static constructor.

Example

The following example demonstrates an error that causes a TypeInitializationException exception.

C# Example

using System;
class TypeInit {
    // Static constructor
   static TypeInit () {
          // Throw an application-defined exception.
        throw new ApplicationException("Error in Class TypeInit");
    }
    public TypeInit() {}
}
class TestTypeInit {
    static public void Main() {
        try {
            TypeInit t = new TypeInit ();
        }
        catch (TypeInitializationException e) {
            Console.WriteLine("Error: {0}",e);
        }
    }
}
   

The output is

Example

Error: System.TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for "TypeInit" threw an exception. ---> System.ApplicationException: Error in Class TypeInit
   at TypeInit..cctor()
   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
   at TypeInit..ctor()
   at TestTypeInit.Main()
 

Requirements

Namespace: System
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
Assembly Versions: 1.0.5000.0, 2.0.0.0