The type initializer for 'System.Web.Http.GlobalConfiguration' threw an exception

Question

I have added a new Web API project. I install Cors

PM> Install-Package Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.Cors -Pre

Then when I run my project, I get t

Answer 1

I had this problem using NET 4.6.1 and after may hours of research removing this from web.config finally fixed the issue: