TypeInitializationException thrown for Program class

Question

My Windows Forms application was working earlier, however suddenly it stopped working. I am getting following exception:

Answer 1

This is one weird issue I had to deal with for the last 2 hours. I solved it by removing the static from the lists I created.

private static readonly List someList = GlobalConfiguration.Connection.PopulateList();

with this one:

private readonly List someList = GlobalConfiguration.Connection.PopulateList();

Hope it helps and you don't have to spend two hours to find out the bug...