ASP.NET 4 Unleashed

Understanding Lambda Expressions

Lambda expressions, another language feature introduced with .NET Framework 3.5, provide you with an extremely terse way of defining methods.

Imagine, for example, that you want to programmatically wire up a Click event handler to a button control. Listing 20.6 is an example of one way of doing this.

Listing 20.6. LanguageChanges\NormalMethod.aspx

In Listing 20.6, the Page_Init() method associates the Button Click event with the btn_Click() method. When you click the button, the btn_Click() method executes and ...