The type initializer for 'MyClass' threw an exception.

[ibiza]

Hi all,

I have this class:

Public Class KanaConverter
Private Shared kana As ArrayList
Private Shared romanji As ArrayList

Shared Sub New()
kana = New ArrayList
romanji = New ArrayList
Dim r As Data.SqlClient. SqlDataReader = japDB.getHiraga na()
While r.Read()
kana.Add(r("hir agana"))
romanji.Add(r(" hiragana_roman" ))
End While
End Sub

Shared Function KanaToRomanji(B yVal sIn As String) As String
...
End Function
End Class

and when I do this in my page load:
Dim s As String = KanaConverter.K anaToRomanji("ã �Œã��ã�›ã�„")
it doesn't even get to the shared constructor and throws that exception
before :
"The type initializer for 'KanaConverter' threw an exception."

What is it supposed to mean?

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

ibiza <la******@gmail .com> wrote:

I have this class:
<snip>
and when I do this in my page load:
Dim s As String = KanaConverter.K anaToRomanji("? ???")
it doesn't even get to the shared constructor and throws that exception
before :
"The type initializer for 'KanaConverter' threw an exception."

What is it supposed to mean?

The "shared constructor" *is* the type initializer. If you catch the
TypeInitializat ionException, you can look at the inner exception to
find out what was wrong.

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