March 2010
Intermediate to advanced
984 pages
21h 13m
English
IN THE PRECEDING CHAPTER, you saw how to store a single method inside an instance of a delegate type and invoke that method via the delegate. Delegates comprise the building blocks of a larger pattern called publish-subscribe. The use of delegates and their support for publish-subscribe patterns is the focus of this chapter. Virtually everything described within this chapter is possible to do using delegates alone. However, the event constructs that this chapter focuses on providing additional encapsulation, making the publish-subscribe pattern easier to implement and less error-prone.

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