I have the following code implementation of my generic singleton provider:

public sealed class Singleton<T> where T : class, new()
{
     Singleton()
     {
     }

     public static T Instance
     {
          get { return SingletonCreator.instance; }
     }

     class SingletonCreator
     {
          static SingletonCreator()
          {
          }

          internal static readonly T instance = new T();
     }
}

This sample was taken from 2 articles and I merged the code to get me what I wanted:

http://www.yoda.arachsys.com/csharp/singleton.html and http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/11111/Generic-Singleton-Provider.

This is how I tried to use the code above:

public class MyClass
{
     public static IMyInterface Initialize()
     {
          if (Singleton<IMyInterface>.Instance == null  // Error 1
          {
               Singleton<IMyInterface>.Instance = CreateEngineInstance();  // Error 2
               Singleton<IMyInterface>.Instance.Initialize();
          }

          return Singleton<IMyInterface>.Instance;
     }
}

And the interface:

public interface IMyInterface
{
}

The error at Error 1 is:

'MyProject.IMyInterace' must be a non-abstract type with a public parameterless constructor in order to use it as parameter 'T' in the generic type or method 'MyProject.Singleton<T>'

The error at Error 2 is:

Property or indexer 'MyProject.Singleton<MyProject.IMyInterface>.Instance' cannot be assigned to -- it is read only

How can I fix this so that it is in line with the 2 articles mentioned above? Any other ideas or suggestions are appreciated.