Disposable singleton in C#

Question

I have a singleton that uses the \"static readonly T Instance = new T();\" pattern. However, I ran into a case where T is disposable, and actually needs to be disposed for u

Answer 1

 public class Foo : IDisposable
  { [ThreadStatic] static Foo _instance = null;

    private Foo() {IsReleased = false;}

    public static Foo Instance
     { get
        { if (_instance == null) _instance = new Foo();
          return _instance;
        }
     }

    public void Release()
     { IsReleased = true;
       Foo._instance = null;
     }

    void IDisposable.Dispose() { Release(); }

    public bool IsReleased { get; private set;}

  }