Implementation of Lazy for .NET 3.5

Question

.NET 4.0 has a nice utility class called System.Lazy that does lazy object initialization. I would like to use this class for a 3.5 project. One time I saw an implementation

Answer 1

A somewhat simplify version of aaron's

public class Lazy where T : new()
{ 
  private T value; 

  public bool IsValueCreated { get; private set;}

  public T Value 
  { 
    get 
    { 
        if (!IsValueCreated) 
        { 
            value = new T();
            IsValueCreated = true; 
        } 
        return value; 
    } 
  } 
}