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Static Constructor & Singleton class


Jon Skeet has a nice article on singletons discussing this issue.


Rather than rolling your own threadsafe lazy initializer and possibly getting it wrong, I recommend reading the msdn on Lazy<T>.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/performance/lazy-initialization#thread-safe-initialization