Question

I am getting the exception: The type initializer for 'my class' threw an exception. in my browser after running my web application. Since this seems to be an error message generated from the view (.aspx), there is no way I can see the stack trace or any log for the source of this error.

I have read a bit around the net and one solution to debugging is to throw a TypeInitializationException and then looking at the inner exception to find out what was wrong. How can I do this when I don’t know where to surround code with a try/catch ?

Answer 1

This can be caused by a bad static constructor, or by bad inline initialization of static properties/fields. For instance:

class A
{
    static A()
    {
        //buggy code here
    }
    static SomeField f = new ThisClassThrowsWhenConstructed(); // <-- or here
}