Order of static constructors/initializers in C#

Question

While working on a C# app I just noticed that in several places static initializers have dependencies on each other like this:

static private List         


        

Answer 1

Yes, you were lucky. C# appears to execute the code in the order it appears in the class.

static private List a = new List() { 0 };
static private List b = new List() { a[0] };

Will work but ...

static private List b = new List() { a[0] };
static private List a = new List() { 0 };

Will fail.

I would recommend putting all your dependencies in one place, the static constructor is the place for this.

static MyClass()
{
  a = new List() { 0 };
  b = new List() { a[0] };
}