Singleton Pattern

The singleton pattern in C# is very simple to implement and very useful. This pattern ensures that there is only one instance of its self providing a global point of access. There are different ways of doing this but I like to use the example below  because it is thread safe and clean.

public class User
{

     private int _userId = 1;
     private static User _instance = new User();

     static User()
     {
     }
     private User()
     {
     }
     public int UserId
     {
         get
         {
             return _userId ;
         }
         set
         {
             _userId = value;
         }
     }

     public static User Instance
     {
         get
         {
             return _instance;
         }
     }
}

Here is a quick test I wrote in NUnit that shows how it is used and comfirms there is only one instance.

[Test]
 public void TestSingleton()
 {
     User sngle1 = User.Instance;
     sngle1.UserId = 1;
     User sngle2 = User.Instance;
     sngle2.UserId = 2;
     Assert.AreEqual(sngle2.UserId, sngle1.UserId);
 }

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