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.getHiragana()
      While r.Read()
         kana.Add(r("hiragana"))
         romanji.Add(r("hiragana_roman"))
      End While
   End Sub

   Shared Function KanaToRomanji(ByVal sIn As String) As String
      ...
   End Function
End Class

and when I do this in my page load:
      Dim s As String = KanaConverter.KanaToRomanji("がくせい")
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?

ibiza <lambe***@gmail.com> wrote:
<snip>

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

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