Exception while using GDAL in C#

Question

I started to use gdal_csharp dll in my application and read a geotiff file. but it says:

The type initializer for \'OSGeo.GDAL.GdalPINVOKE\'         


        

Answer 1

Have you added the path to your GDAL libraries to your PATH environment variable? I downloaded my files from http://vbkto.dyndns.org/sdk/?_sm_au_=iVVqjsHS2n46WP00 and here's my path: C:\libs\release-1600-gdal-1-9-mapserver-6-2\bin.