Re: static constructor in derived class not being called

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Elia,

Interesting stuff!

My guess is:
a) Before the call to MyDerived.DoSomething(), the CLR loads MyDerived and
immediately executes static constructor
b) Because of the inheritance relationship, the CLR loads MyBase, and
immediately initializes static field to 0 and then executes static
constructor (which in this case does nothing).
c) The call to DoSomething() proceeds, printing 0...

Regards - Octavio

"Elia Karagiannis" <ekaragiannis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> escribió en el mensaje
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> The static constructor of a derived class never gets called if it has no
> other methods and the base class is only static
>
> I have the following base class and derived class.
>
> public class MyBase
> {
> protected MyBase()
> {}
>
> protected static int x;
>
> public static void DoSomething()
> {
> Console.WriteLine("X = " + x.ToString());
> }
> }
>
>
> // the derived class
> public class MyDerived : MyBase
> {
> static MyDerived()
> {
> x = 5;
> }
> }
>
> static void Main()
> {
> MyDerived.DoSomething(); // prints out zero instead of 5
> // the static
> constructor on the derived class never gets called
> // if I add a dummy
> static method to the derived class and call it then the
> // static
> constructor of the derived class will be called but I cant do this...
> }
>
>
> Any suggestions or can this just not be done??
>


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