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• All About Statics: Get a Charge From Statics with Seven Essential Programming Tips -- MSDN Magazine, January 2005
  mohit
  Oct 26 2007
  

  It's good practice to avoid making database or remote calls in a static constructor. If the call throws, the type will fail to initialize, and you're out of luck for the duration of the application lifetime. We've been hit by this a few times.

  Quoted: A TypeInitializationException can be a fatal error in an application since it renders a type useless. You should plan to catch any exceptions inside of a type constructor if there is any possibility of recovering from the error, and you should allow an application to terminate if the error cannot be reconciled.

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