Click here to Skip to main content
15,880,469 members
Articles / Programming Languages / C#
Alternative
Tip/Trick

Simple Singleton Pattern in C#

Rate me:
Please Sign up or sign in to vote.
5.00/5 (14 votes)
9 Jul 2011CPOL 16.5K   4   2
The easiest singleton pattern is the one you used to the lock object itself.Creating any variable as static readonly and initializing it directly (or via a static constructor) will already make it singleton.Also, considering that "lock" clears all the caches, you don't need to declare the...
The easiest singleton pattern is the one you used to the lock object itself.

Creating any variable as static readonly and initializing it directly (or via a static constructor) will already make it singleton.
Also, considering that "lock" clears all the caches, you don't need to declare the variable as volatile.

License

This article, along with any associated source code and files, is licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)


Written By
Software Developer (Senior) Microsoft
United States United States
I started to program computers when I was 11 years old, as a hobbyist, programming in AMOS Basic and Blitz Basic for Amiga.
At 12 I had my first try with assembler, but it was too difficult at the time. Then, in the same year, I learned C and, after learning C, I was finally able to learn assembler (for Motorola 680x0).
Not sure, but probably between 12 and 13, I started to learn C++. I always programmed "in an object oriented way", but using function pointers instead of virtual methods.

At 15 I started to learn Pascal at school and to use Delphi. At 16 I started my first internship (using Delphi). At 18 I started to work professionally using C++ and since then I've developed my programming skills as a professional developer in C++ and C#, generally creating libraries that help other developers do their work easier, faster and with less errors.

Want more info or simply want to contact me?
Take a look at: http://paulozemek.azurewebsites.net/
Or e-mail me at: paulozemek@outlook.com

Codeproject MVP 2012, 2015 & 2016
Microsoft MVP 2013-2014 (in October 2014 I started working at Microsoft, so I can't be a Microsoft MVP anymore).

Comments and Discussions

 
QuestionAbout that question on deserialization exception - it is caused by threading Pin
devvvy30-Oct-12 16:30
devvvy30-Oct-12 16:30 
GeneralReason for my vote of 1 I'm a big fan of alternative 8, that... Pin
Kabwla.Phone6-Nov-11 21:27
Kabwla.Phone6-Nov-11 21:27 
Reason for my vote of 1
I'm a big fan of alternative 8, that should be on top.

General General    News News    Suggestion Suggestion    Question Question    Bug Bug    Answer Answer    Joke Joke    Praise Praise    Rant Rant    Admin Admin   

Use Ctrl+Left/Right to switch messages, Ctrl+Up/Down to switch threads, Ctrl+Shift+Left/Right to switch pages.