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Error: The type initializer for 'NativeMagickImageCollection' threw an exception.

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Description

With the last 2 versions of Magick.NET I am getting the error:

Error: The type initializer for 'NativeMagickImageCollection' threw an exception.

Steps to Reproduce

Working with an MagickImageCollection as such:

// create a collection of images in order to support multi-page.
using (MagickImageCollection pages = new MagickImageCollection())
{
...
}

This does not happen on release 7.10.2.

Magick.NET version: .7.11.1 and 7.11.0.
Environment (Operating system, version and so on): This has happened on Windows 10 Build 1809, and Windows 7.

Issue Analytics

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Created 4 years ago
Comments:6 (2 by maintainers)

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dlemstracommented, Apr 12, 2019

This always happens with the AnyCPU version of Magick.NET. You can control the location of the folder with MagickAnyCPU.CacheDirectory. And you could aldo whitelist the dll, it is signed with a code signing certificate.

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Yoda-Mancommented, Mar 29, 2021

I am getting this error only when I deploy the project it works fine from the dev project in visual studio

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