Using Static constructors to create a singleton in C#

Question

I\'ve been looking at the article on creating static constructors in c# here:

http://csharpindepth.com/Articles/General/Singleton.aspx

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Answer 1

The question of the day is this: do you want lazy instantiation or not? If you do not need lazy instantiation and are perfectly fine with on-load instantiation, feel free to use the paradigm you have, or even use this somewhat less verbose version:

public static class ServiceFactory
{
    private static readonly container = new Foo();
    public static Instance { get { return container; } }
}

Both work fine and are perfectly valid -- as long as you don't need lazy. If you need lazy, use the Fifth version pointed out in the article.