static-constructor

Explicitly call static constructor

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As I found out today, the static constructor CAN be called directly: from another Stackoverflow post The other answers are excellent, but if you need to force a class constructor to run without having a reference to the type (ie. reflection), you can use: Type type = …; System.Runtime.CompilerServices.RuntimeHelpers.RunClassConstructor(type.TypeHandle); I had to add this code … Read more

How to pass parameter to static class constructor?

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Don’t use a static constructor, but a static initialization method: public class A { private static string ParamA { get; set; } public static void Init(string paramA) { ParamA = paramA; } } In C#, static constructors are parameterless, and there’re few approaches to overcome this limitation. One is what I’ve suggested you above.

static readonly field initializer vs static constructor initialization

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There is one subtle difference between these two, which can be seen in the IL code – putting an explicit static constructor tells the C# compiler not to mark the type as beforefieldinit. The beforefieldinit affects when the type initializer is run and knowing about this is useful when writing lazy singletons in C#, for … Read more

static constructors in C++? I need to initialize private static objects

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To get the equivalent of a static constructor, you need to write a separate ordinary class to hold the static data and then make a static instance of that ordinary class. class StaticStuff { std::vector<char> letters_; public: StaticStuff() { for (char c=”a”; c <= ‘z’; c++) letters_.push_back(c); } // provide some way to get at … Read more