Global vs Singleton in .NET

Question

I have a very common situation here. And for years I haven\'t found if what i am doing is RIGHT by industry standards.Consider an application which connects to the database,

Answer 1

If all you're storing is a string (possibly along with a bunch of other global application settings), I would just use a static class with a bunch of properties to hold all that. A singleton is more code & maintenance work, but it's unnecessary work in this case, since your properties class isn't going to DO anything; just hold things.