Chapter 10. Delegates, Anonymous Functions, and Events

Delegates provide a built-in, language-supported mechanism for defining and executing callbacks. Their flexibility allows you to define the exact signature of the callback, and that information becomes part of the delegate type. Anonymous functions are forms of delegates that allow you to shortcut some of the delegate syntax that, in many cases, is overkill and mundane[35]. Building on top of delegates is the support for events in C# and the .NET platform. Events provide a uniform pattern for hooking up callback implementations—and possibly multiple instances thereof—to the code that triggers the callback.

Overview of Delegates

The CLR provides a runtime that explicitly supports a flexible callback ...

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