Hi,

I am experiencing a strange problem.  I am reading and writing xml files via
XmlDocument and XmlTextWriter.  In the debugger everything works fine but
outside the debugger (debug or release) I receive the following error:  "The
type initializer for "System.Xml.Schema.Validator" threw an exception."

I wrote a small console app that contains the problem -- I've just attached
the default class which gets run.  Output outside the debugger is as follows

------------------
Creating xml file
Reading xml file
Error reading xml file
The type initializer for "System.Xml.Schema.Validator" threw an exception.

Press a key to exit
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I know that this code worked at some point in time and I do not get the
error message when running debug or release from the debugger.  Runnning
WinXP SP2 and Visual Studio .Net 2003 (C#).  Please feel free to correct me
if I am doing something incorrectly or let me know if it runs error free for
you.

Thanks in advance,
Chris

<snip>
using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Xml;

namespace Test
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Summary description for Class1.
    /// </summary>
    class XmlProblem
    {
        private static string m_sXmlFile = @"C:\temp\test.xml";

        /// <summary>
        /// The main entry point for the application.
        /// </summary>
        [STAThread]
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            //
            // TODO: Add code to start application here
            //
           
            CreateXMLFile();
            ReadXMLFile();
            Console.WriteLine("");
            Console.WriteLine("Press a key to exit");
            Console.ReadLine();
        }

        static void CreateXMLFile()
        {
            StreamWriter sw = null;

            try
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Creating xml file");
               
                sw = new StreamWriter(m_sXmlFile, false);
                XmlTextWriter xWriter = new XmlTextWriter(sw);
                xWriter.Formatting = Formatting.Indented;
                xWriter.Indentation = 3;
                xWriter.WriteStartDocument();
                xWriter.WriteStartElement("ApplicationSettings");
                xWriter.WriteEndElement();            // AppSettings
                xWriter.WriteEndDocument();
                xWriter.Flush();
                xWriter.Close();
            }
            catch(Exception ex)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Error creating xml file " + ex.Message);
            }

            if (sw != null)
                sw.Close();
        }

        static void ReadXMLFile()
        {
            StreamReader sr = null;

            try
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Reading xml file");

                sr = new StreamReader(m_sXmlFile);
                string sFileContents = sr.ReadToEnd();

                XmlDocument xDoc = new XmlDocument();
                xDoc.LoadXml(sFileContents);
            }
            catch(Exception ex)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Error reading xml file");
                Console.WriteLine(ex.Message);
            }

            if (sr != null)
                sr.Close();
        }

    }
}

</snip>