Lets take a look at (static) constructors, thread-safety and static singletons.
Let's start by examining how field initialization works in .NET.
Let's say you have the following code:
public class Program
{
// field declaration and initialization
private int i = 5;
public Program ()
{
// do ctorOne of my clients has recently asked me to implement a Wage Calculator.
Calculating the wage of an employee could be really complicated and was likely to change quite often. And on top of that, I was given 5 days to implement the entire backend.
I recentely started doing all my development work in Virtual Machines. I have one optimized for web-development, another for windows development, and a couple more for special cases. This approach has a lot of advantages, but one of the real problems I experienced in maintaining
If you work with small projects that isn't such a problem. If you however, like me,