Best Practice for Utilities Class?

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Hey all,

We currently have a utilities class that handles a lot of string formatting, date displays, and similar functionality and it's a shared/static class.

Is this the "correct" way of doing things or should we be instanciating the utility class as and when we need it?

Our main goal here is to reduce memory footprint but performance of the application is also a consideration.

Thanks, Matt

PS. We're using .NET 2.0

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