Question

Going from Java to C# I have the following question:
In java I could do the following:

public class Application {
    static int attribute;
    static {
        attribute = 5;
    }
   // ... rest of code
}

I know I can initialize this from the constructor but this does not fit my needs (I want to initialize and call some utility functions without create the object).
Does C# support this? If yes, how can I get this done?

Thanks in advance,

Answer 1

public class Application
{     

    static int attribute;     
    static Application()
    {         
         attribute = 5;     
    }    // removed
}

You can use the C# equivalent static constructors. Please don’t confuse it with a regular constructor. A regular constructor doesn’t have a static modifier in front of it.

I am assuming your //... rest of the code need to be also run once. If you don’t have such code you can just simply do this.

 public class Application
 {     

    static int attribute = 5;
 }