Element's texture is null - Monogame/XNA, C#

Question

I have a ArgumentNullException everytime I try to call the Draw() method of my Projectile class in the Game1.Draw() method.

In Game1.cs Initialize() method:

//PROJECTILES INITIALIZATION
        lesProjectiles = new List<Projectile>(20);
        for (int i = 0; i < lesProjectiles.Capacity; i++)
        {
            lesProjectiles.Add(new Projectile(projectileSprite,
                new Vector2(playerPosition.X - 15.5f, playerPosition.Y - 20)));
        }

This is the Projectile class constructor:

public Projectile(Texture2D texture, Vector2 startPos)
    {
            this.projectileSprite = texture;
            this.projectilePosition = startPos;
    }

The -15.5f and -20 values are for placing the projectile at the middle of my spaceship. (Not optimized logic ikr.)

Apart from my whole game logic, let's say I wanna draw the first element of my array. I'm doing that:

In Game1.cs Draw(GameTime gameTime) method:

        spriteBatch.Begin();
        lesProjectiles[0].Draw(gameTime, spriteBatch);
        spriteBatch.End();

And there is the Draw() method from my Projectile class :

public void Draw(GameTime gameTime, SpriteBatch spriteBatch)
    {
        spriteBatch.Draw(this.projectileSprite, this.projectilePosition,
            Color.White);
    }

The returned error: System.ArgumentNullException: Value cannot be null. Parameter name: texture

I don't understand why the projectileSprite values of my array elements are null, considering it's done in the initialization method whenever the constructor is called.

Thanks for further help, sorry if my explanations are bad

Answer 1

Ok I found a fix after multiple tries.

It seems like, even if I use the Content.Load in my LoadContent() method and loads a sprite into variable, I can't use it in both Update() and Draw() method. The texture isn't found.

My fix is not perfect (I guess), but it works. Instead of actually loading my sprite.png in the LoadContent() method, I did it in my Initialize() method, just before my For structure. Here it is:

In Game1.cs Initialize() method:

        //PROJECTILES INITIALIZATION
        projectileSprite = Content.Load<Texture2D>("rocket");

        lesProjectiles = new List<Projectile>(20);
        for (int i = 0; i < lesProjectiles.Capacity; i++)
        {
            lesProjectiles.Add(new Projectile(projectileSprite,
                new Vector2(playerPosition.X - 15.5f, playerPosition.Y - 20)));
        }

Now I can Draw the sprites from my array without any issue. Thanks to Felsir, he got me on the way.

Answer 2

Be sure you have something like this in your code:

Game(1)
{
Content.RootDirectory = "Content";
sContent = Content; 
}

In the book "Learn 2D Game Development with C#" on page 43 they left that out.