Take advantage of delegates to promote flexibility and code reuse in your .NET applications and to implement event-driven programming with ease. A delegate is a type that references a method that has ...

Take advantage of closures in C# — including anonymous methods, delegates, and lambda expressions — to make your code robust, efficient, readable, and easier to maintain. Closures are often associated ...

Multicast delegates are useful in their own right but they also form the basis on which the C# event system is built. We take a close look at how they work and how to use them. For example, did you ...

The overall C# approach to allowing functions to be first-class entities has developed over time as well. Initially delegates were used as a way of wrapping a function in an object in a way that is ...

Delegates are type safe function pointers *with an optional this pointer* thus no need to pass one round yourself. Obviously their utility is much enhanced in contract to C++ by virtue of being part ...