Which is called first static constructor or private constructor

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I was reading a tutorial for implementing Singleton and the code is

public class Singleton
    {
        private static readonly Singleton instance = new Singleton();

        static Singleton()
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Static");
        }
        private Singleton()
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Private");
        }

        public static Singleton Instance { get { return instance; } }

        public void DoSomething() {
            //this must be thread safe
        }
    }

When I write Singleton.Instance, the output is Private Static

I was expecting it to be Static Private

Reason being that when I read a MSDN tutorial "http://ift.tt/1W6pY2n"

I saw that public constructor was called before the static constructor.

Why is there a difference?

asked 32 secs ago

Rajat Malik

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Which is called first static constructor or private constructor