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Why would finding a type’s initializer throw a NullReferenceException?

This has got me stumped. I was trying to optimize some tests for Noda Time, where we have some type initializer checking. I thought I’d find out whether a type has a type initializer (static constructor or static variables with initializers) before loading everything into a new AppDomain. To my surprise, a small test of this…

Why would finding a type’s initializer throw a NullReferenceException?

This has got me stumped. I was trying to optimize some tests for Noda Time, where we have some type initializer checking. I thought I’d find out whether a type has a type initializer (static constructor or static variables with initializers) before loading everything into a new AppDomain. To my surprise, a small test of this…