Alternatives for the singleton pattern?

Question

I have been a web developer for some time now using ASP.NET and C#, I want to try and increase my skills by using best practices.

I have a website. I want to load t

Answer 1

Design Patterns can be amazing things. Unfortunately, the singleton seems to stick out like a sore thumb and in many cases can be considered an anti-pattern (it promotes bad practices). Bizarely, the majority of developers will only know one design pattern, and that is the singleton.

Ideally your settings should be a member variable in a high level location, for example the application object which owns the webpages you are spawning. The pages can then ask the app for the settings, or the application can pass the settings as pages are constructed.