Where is DLLMain in a C# DLL?

Question

 

I am writing a simple class library with C# that exports a class.  The DLL needs to do some initialization once a process loads it.  In the good old days of VC++ 6.0 (and Win32), you could rely on DLLMain to do that.  However, I can not find a counterpart to DLLMain in the .Net framework.  Any comments would be appreciated.

Thanks

Answer 1

No DllMain(), it's evil in many respects due to the loader lock.  Check this thread for reference.

Answer 2

To substitute for DLLMain, you could employ a static constructor on the class you're exporting to fire your initialization code. It will fire in a thread-safe manner the first time the type is accessed, prior to execution of any other code in that type. Check here for more info: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Aa645612(VS.71).aspx