Visual Studio Toolbox: Design Patterns: Singleton

This is the fifth of an eight part series where I am joined by Phil Japikse to discuss design patterns. A design pattern is a best practice you can use in your code to solve a common problem.  In this episode, Phil demonstrates the Singleton pattern. This pattern restricts the instantiation of a class to one instance and provides global access to that instance.

Episodes in this series:

• Command/Memento patterns
• Strategy pattern
• Template Method pattern
• Observer/Publish-Subscribe patterns
• Singleton pattern (this episode)
• Factory patterns
• Adapter/Facade patterns
• Decorator pattern

Resources

• Sample code
• Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software book
• Head First Design Patterns book