FlexCel on Mac

[Wilson_James]

When running a console project on a Mac in Xamarin Studio and executing:

XlsFile xls = new XlsFile(filename);

I get the error: The type initializer for 'MonoMac.Foundation.NSString' threw an exception. 

Any ideas about how to address this issue?

[brunofierens]

Hi,

 

Have you called "MonoMac.AppKit.NSApplication.Init()”?

 

From https://components.xamarin.com/gettingstarted/flexcel

5.5.1. Notes.

If doing an OSX Console
application, you will need to add a reference to System.Data, System.Xml and
XamMac or MonoMac to the app. You might also need to copy XamMac.dll or
MonoMac.dll you your output folder. And in a console application, you will
need to initialize the Cocoa framework by calling
MonoMac.AppKit.NSApplication.Init() (As commented in the code). For normal
applications, you will probably not need to do anything.

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