Exception Thrown in a Static Constructor Is Not Being Sent To Sentry

Environment

How do you use Sentry? Sentry SaaS

Which SDK and version? sentry.dotnet@v3.8.1

Steps to Reproduce

Exception thrown in a static constructor doesn’t get enqueued.

For example, we have a class with a static constructor that throws exception

public class Address
{
    static Address() 
    {
            var cultures = CultureInfo.GetCultures(CultureTypes.SpecificCultures)
                .Select(x => new RegionInfo("qwerty")) //this will throw
                .Where(x => x.DisplayName != "World").ToList();
    }
}

when exception is handled like this:

try
{
   var a = new Address();
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
    Sentry.CaptureException(ex);
}

where Sentry is a wrapper class like this:

public class Sentry 
{
    public static readonly SentryClient Instance;

    static Sentry() 
    {
           Instance = new SentryClient(new SentryOptions {
                    Environment = "development"
                    Debug = true,
                    DiagnosticLevel = SentryLevel.Debug,
                    DiagnosticLogger = new TraceDiagnosticLogger(SentryLevel.Debug),
                    ServerName = System.Environment.MachineName,
                    Dsn = ($"my-dsn")
            });
    }

    public static void CaptureException(Exception ex)
    {
        var sentryEvent = new SentryEvent(ex);
        Instance.CaptureEvent(sentryEvent);
    }
}

in diagnostics mode, here’s the exception I see when CaptureEvent is called:

Info: Capturing event.
  Debug: Running processor on exception: The type initializer for 'testApp.Address' threw an exception.
The thread 0x20d0 has exited with code 0 (0x0).
  Debug: Creating SentryStackTrace. isCurrentStackTrace: False.
The thread 0x1cdc has exited with code 0 (0x0).
'w3wp.exe' (CLR v4.0.30319: /LM/W3SVC/2/ROOT-13-132836386776909184): Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.Net\assembly\GAC_MSIL\System.Runtime.InteropServices.RuntimeInformation\v4.0_4.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a\System.Runtime.InteropServices.RuntimeInformation.dll'. 
The thread 0x1f48 has exited with code 0 (0x0).
The thread 0x2364 has exited with code 0 (0x0).
Exception thrown: 'System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException' in mscorlib.dll
The thread 0x2a8 has exited with code 0 (0x0).
  Error: An error occurred when capturing the event a7b03ff9ef0c4f1187f6867df9ee8f19.
System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. ---> System.TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for 'testApp.Address' threw an exception. ---> System.ArgumentException: Culture name 'qwerty' is not supported.
Parameter name: name
   at System.Globalization.RegionInfo..ctor(String name)
   at testApp.Address.<>c.<.cctor>b__8_0(CultureInfo x) in \\Mac\Home\dev\testApp\Address.cs:line 43
   at System.Linq.Enumerable.WhereSelectArrayIterator`2.MoveNext()
   at System.Linq.Enumerable.WhereEnumerableIterator`1.MoveNext()
   at System.Collections.Generic.List`1..ctor(IEnumerable`1 collection)
   at System.Linq.Enumerable.ToList[TSource](IEnumerable`1 source)
   at testApp.Address..cctor() in \\Mac\Home\dev\testApp\Address.cs:line 42
   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
   at System.RuntimeFieldHandle.GetValue(RtFieldInfo field, Object instance, RuntimeType fieldType, RuntimeType declaringType, Boolean& domainInitialized)
   at System.Reflection.RtFieldInfo.UnsafeGetValue(Object obj)
   at System.Reflection.RtFieldInfo.GetValue(Object obj)
   at System.Diagnostics.EnhancedStackTrace.GetMethodDisplayString(MethodBase originMethod)
   at System.Diagnostics.EnhancedStackTrace.GetFrames(StackTrace stackTrace)
   at Sentry.Extensibility.SentryStackTraceFactory.<CreateFrames>d__5.MoveNext()
   at System.Linq.Buffer`1..ctor(IEnumerable`1 source)
   at System.Linq.Enumerable.<ReverseIterator>d__75`1.MoveNext()
   at Sentry.Extensibility.SentryStackTraceFactory.Create(StackTrace stackTrace, Boolean isCurrentStackTrace)
   at Sentry.Internal.MainExceptionProcessor.<CreateSentryException>d__9.MoveNext()
   at Sentry.Internal.MainExceptionProcessor.<CreateSentryException>d__9.MoveNext()
   at System.Collections.Generic.List`1..ctor(IEnumerable`1 collection)
   at System.Linq.Enumerable.ToList[TSource](IEnumerable`1 source)
   at Sentry.Internal.MainExceptionProcessor.Process(Exception exception, SentryEvent sentryEvent)
   at Sentry.SentryClient.DoSendEvent(SentryEvent event, Scope scope)
   at Sentry.SentryClient.CaptureEvent(SentryEvent event, Scope scope)

Expected Result

Event would be sent to Sentry.

Actual Result

CaptureEvent is called but it hasn’t thrown exceptions and Sentry event wasn’t sent.

[SimonCropp]

@twinmind thanks for the awesome repro. this would not have been possible to solve without your help

[SimonCropp]

fixing upstream in Ben.Demystifier: https://github.com/benaadams/Ben.Demystifier/pull/187