When developing applications in .NET Core, you might often need a single, shared instance of a class. Typical use cases would be an instance of LogManager, StateManager, etc. You can either use a singleton class or a static class to achieve this. The decision on which to choose—singleton or static—depends on several factors. This article explains singleton classes and static classes and when we should we use one versus the other.
To work with the code examples provided in this article, you should have Visual Studio 2019 installed in your system. If you don’t already have a copy, you can download Visual Studio 2019 here. You can download .NET 5.0 from here.
