The following is my Windows service code. When I am debugging the code, I am getting the error/ exception:
The type initializer for 'CSMessageUtility.CSDetails' threw an exception.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Linq;
using System.ServiceProcess;
using System.Text;
using System.IO;
using System.Threading;
using System.Windows;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using CSMessageUtility;
namespace CS_Data_Trasmmiting_Service
{
public partial class svcCSWinServ : ServiceBase
{
//private string sLogFormat;
//private string sErrorTime;
private Thread new_thread;
Logger logObject = new Logger();
private bool isenable = true;
public svcCSWinServ()
{
InitializeComponent();
logObject.append("Initialize Service " + DateTime.Now.ToString(), 70);
CheckForAlarms();
}
protected override void OnStart(string[] args)
{
try
{
new_thread = new Thread(new ThreadStart(CheckForAlarms));
new_thread.Start();
}
catch
{
}
logObject.append("Service Started successfully " + DateTime.Now.ToString(), 70);
}
protected override void OnStop()
{
try
{
isenable = false;
new_thread.Abort();
}
catch
{
}
logObject.append("Service Stopped successfully " + DateTime.Now.ToString(), 70);
}
void CheckForAlarms()
{
try
{
while (true)
{
//if((DateTime.Now.ToString("HH:mm") == "18:00"))
//{
logObject.append("Start Sending Data " +DateTime.Now.ToString(), 70);
try
{
//SendAllInfo();
string str = CSMessageUtility.CSDetails.createDHSMessageFormat();
Thread.Sleep(2000);
string str1 = CSMessageUtility.CSDetails.createEALMessageFormat();
Thread.Sleep(2000);
string str2 = CSMessageUtility.CSDetails.createProductStatusMessageForamt();
Thread.Sleep(2000);
string str3 = CSMessageUtility.CSDetails.createEODMessageFormat();
Thread.Sleep(2000);
string str4 = CSDetails.createProductReceiptEntryatBOSMessageFormat();
Thread.Sleep(2000);
string str5 = CSMessageUtility.CSDetails.createProductSaleMessageFormat();
Thread.Sleep(2000);
string str6 = CSMessageUtility.CSDetails.createTotalizerExceptionMessageFormat();
Thread.Sleep(2000);
//CSMessageUtility.CSDetails.createDailyCOtransferMessageFormat();
//Thread.Sleep(2000);
}
catch (Exception ee)
{
logObject.append(ee.Message, 70);
}
logObject.append("Finished Sending Data " +DateTime.Now.ToString(), 70);
Thread.Sleep(3000);
//}
//Thread.Sleep(20000);
}
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
logObject.append("Thread Exception: "+ ex.Message + " "+ DateTime.Now.ToString(), 70);
try
{
new_thread.Abort();
}
catch (Exception ex1)
{
logObject.append("Thread Exception: " +ex1.Message + " " + DateTime.Now.ToString(), 70);
}
if (isenable == true)
{
new_thread = new Thread(new ThreadStart(CheckForAlarms));
new_thread.Start();
}
}
}
}
}
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The answer is
As the Error says the initialization of the Type/Class failed. This usually occurs when there is some exception in the constructor of the class. Most common reason is you assign some value in the constructor reading from a config file and the config file is missing those values.
If for whatever reason the power goes or the Visual Studio IDE crashes it can cause this problem inside your bin/debug bin/release...
Just delete the content and recompile (from personal experience when my toe hit the reset button!)
Dictionary keys should be unique !
In my case, I was using a Dictionary, and I found two items in it have accidentally the same key.
Dictionary<string, string> myDictionary = new Dictionary<string, string>() {
{"KEY1", "V1"},
{"KEY1", "V2" },
{"KEY3", "V3"},
};
The type initializer for 'CSMessageUtility.CSDetails' threw an exception. means that the static constructor on that class threw an Exception - so you need to look either in the static constructor of the CSDetails class, or in the initialisation of any static members of that class.
I've had the same problem caused by having two of the same configuration properties (which matches the app.config):
[ConfigurationProperty("TransferTimeValidity")]
Noteworthy: I had multiple projects in my solution and I forgot to add the references/Nuget libraries. When I ran a method in the static class, which used the given libraries, it threw the exception mentioned.
One other thing to check when these initialize errors are thrown would be to check if the target .NET version is installed on the server. You can right click the project and see what .NET version the application is targeting.
This can happen if you have a dependency property that is registered to the wrong owner type (ownerType argument).
Notice SomeOtherControl should have been YourControl.
public partial class YourControl
{
public bool Enabled
{
get { return (bool)GetValue(EnabledProperty); }
set { SetValue(EnabledProperty, value); }
}
public static readonly DependencyProperty EnabledProperty =
DependencyProperty.Register(nameof(Enabled), typeof(bool), typeof(SomeOtherControl), new PropertyMetadata(false));
}
I ran into the same problem, when I was using a static methods in a Util class, just like you had used CSMessageUtility.CSDetails.
The problem was that during the static initialization of the class (using the static constructor), the framework also initialize the the static variables (fields) in the class. I had a static variable that attempts to read values from app.config, and app.config was missing the respective settings, thus resulting in an un-handled exception. This resulted in getting the
"Object reference not set to an instance of an object."
as the inner exception.
Similar to what Muhammad Iqbal stated.. I was in a VB.NET (may also be C#) project where I did remove a key-value pair from the App.config which was referenced by a variable global to the Sub Main() of Module Main. Therefore, the exception (and break) occurs in Module Main before the Sub Main(). If only I had a break-point on the Dim, but we don't usually break on global variables. Perhaps a good reason not to declare globals referencing App.config? In other words, this...
An unhandled exception of type 'System.TypeInitializationException' occurred in Unknown Module. The type initializer for 'Namespace.Main' threw an exception.
Is caused by...
App.config
<connectionStrings>
<!--<add name="ConnectionString1" connectionString="..." />-->
Main module
Module Main
Dim cnnString As String = ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings("ConnectionString1") '<-- BREAK HERE (EXCEPTION)
Sub Main()
// main code
End Main
End Module
This problem can be caused if a class tries to get value of a key in web.config or app.config which is not present there.
e.g.
The class has a static variable
private static string ClientID = System.Configuration.ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings["GoogleCalendarApplicationClientID"].ToString();
But the web.config doesn't contain the GoogleCalendarApplicationClientID key
The error will be thrown on any static function call or any class instance creation
In my case I had this failing on Logger.Create inside a class library that was being used by my main (console) app. The problem was I had forgotten to add a reference to NLog.dll in my console app. Adding the reference with the correct .NET Framework library version fixed the problem.
Somehow exiting Visual Studio and re-opening it solved this for me.
Another scenario that might cause this is when you have a piece of your code that calls:
string sParam = **ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["SOME_PARAM"].ToString();
Keep in mind that you have to use the OWSTIMER.EXE.CONFIG file for configuration file settings. I had an App.config file that I was trying to read and I was getting this error because on instantiation of my job instance, I had a line in my code that was referring to Connfiguration.AppSettings & Configuration.ConnectionStrings. Just make sure that you go the path:
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\BIN
and place your configuration settings in the OWSTIMER.EXE.CONFIG file.
In my case, I had a helper class that was static. In that class was a method to initialize a SqlCommand dependent on variables. As this was being called in several places I moved it to the helper class and called as needed, so this method was also static. Now I had a global property that was the connection string in Global.asax pointing to the connection string in web.config. Intermittently I would get "The type initializer for 'Helper' threw an exception". If I moved the method from the Helper class to the class where it was being called from all was good. The inner exception complained of the object being null (Helper class). What I did was add Using Helper to Global.asax and even though it was not being used by Global.asax this solved the problem.
I encountered this issue due to mismatch between the runtime versions of the assemblies. Please verify the runtime versions of the main assembly (calling application) and the referred assembly
I wrapped my line that was crashing in a try-catch block, printed out the exception, and breaked immediately after it was printed. The exception information shown had a stack trace which pointed me to the file and line of code causing the fault to occur.
System.TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for 'Blah.blah.blah' threw an exception.
---> System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at Some.Faulty.Software..cctor() in C:\Projects\My.Faulty.File.cs:line 56
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
at Blah.blah.blah(Blah.blah.blah)
at TestApplication.Program.Main(String[] args)
in C:\Projects\Blah.blah.blah\Program.cs:line 29 Exception caught.
My Answer is also related to Config section. If you assign values from Config file at static class of C# or Module.VB of VB, you will get this error at run time.
add key="LogPath" value="~/Error_Log/"
Using Forward slash in Web.Config also leads to this error on Run time. I just resolved this issue by putting BackSlash
add key="LogPath" value="~\Error_Log\"
I too faced this error in two situation
While performing redirection from BAL layer to DAL layer I faced this exception. Inner exception says that "Object Reference error".
Web.Configfile key does not match.
Hope this useful to solve your problem.
Had a case like this in a WPF project. My issue was on a line that went like this:
DataTable myTable = FillTable(strMySqlQuery);
Where FillTable() returned a DataTable based on a SQL query string. If I did the "copy exception to clipboard" option, I think it was, and pasted into Notepad, I could see the message. For me, it was The input is not a valid Base-64 string as it contains a non-base 64 character.
My actual problem wasn't that the query string had something that shouldn't be there, like I was thinking, because string strMySqlQuery = "SELECT * FROM My_Table" was my string and thought it could be the * or _, but the actual problem was in FillTable(), where I had a call to another function, GetConnection() that returned an OracleConnection object, in order to open it and retrieve and return the DataTable. Inside GetConnection() I was getting the app.config parameters for my connection string, and I had one of them misnamed, so it was setting a null value for the service account's password and not making the DB connection. So it's not always where the error is exactly correct for all circumstances. Best to dive into the function where the error is and debug step-by-step and ensure all values are getting filled with what you expect.
I had a different but still related configuration.
Could be a custom configuration section that hasn't been declared in configSections.
Just declare the section and the error should resolve itself.
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