private static int i = 0;

Are you sure that i should be static? If it's static there isn't too much sense of the Counter instance = new Counter() instance and the Next and the Reset methods also could be static.

Anyway, I'd use a longer variable name, like nextValue for better readability.

private static int i = 0;

Are you sure that i should be static? If it's static there isn't too much sense of the Counter instance = new Counter() instance and the Next and the Reset methods also could be static.

Anyway, I'd use a longer variable name, like nextValue for better readability.

Furthermore, consider the drawbacks of the Singleton pattern:

This pattern makes unit testing far more difficult, as it introduces global state into an application.

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