From 9ce8e5a02dece620402129c97e1b80be46a19a66 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cheena Malhotra <v-chmalh@microsoft.com>
Date: Thu, 21 May 2020 19:07:53 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Same changes as NetFx

---
 .../SqlClient/SqlAuthenticationProviderManager.NetCoreApp.cs  | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/Microsoft.Data.SqlClient/netcore/src/Microsoft/Data/SqlClient/SqlAuthenticationProviderManager.NetCoreApp.cs b/src/Microsoft.Data.SqlClient/netcore/src/Microsoft/Data/SqlClient/SqlAuthenticationProviderManager.NetCoreApp.cs
index 8238de1c23..62e420373e 100644
--- a/src/Microsoft.Data.SqlClient/netcore/src/Microsoft/Data/SqlClient/SqlAuthenticationProviderManager.NetCoreApp.cs
+++ b/src/Microsoft.Data.SqlClient/netcore/src/Microsoft/Data/SqlClient/SqlAuthenticationProviderManager.NetCoreApp.cs
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ internal partial class SqlAuthenticationProviderManager
         static SqlAuthenticationProviderManager()
         {
             var activeDirectoryAuthNativeProvider = new ActiveDirectoryNativeAuthenticationProvider();
-            SqlAuthenticationProviderConfigurationSection configurationSection;
+            SqlAuthenticationProviderConfigurationSection configurationSection = null;
 
             try
             {
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ static SqlAuthenticationProviderManager()
             }
             catch (ConfigurationErrorsException)
             {
-                configurationSection = null;
+                // Don't throw an error for invalid config files
             }
 
             Instance = new SqlAuthenticationProviderManager(configurationSection);