.NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference, Volume 1: Base Class Library and Extended Numerics Library
by Brad Abrams
Description
Delegate types derive from the System.Delegate class. The declaration of a delegate type establishes a contract that specifies the signature of one or more methods. [Note: For an example of a delegate type declaration, see the examples at the end of this topic.]
Delegate types are implicitly sealed: it is not permissible to derive a new type from a delegate type. [Note: The System.Delegate class is not considered a delegate type; it is a class used to derive delegate types.]
[Note: For information on subclassing the Delegate class, see Partition II of the CLI Specification.]
A delegate is an instance of a delegate type. A non-null delegate references an invocation list, which is made up of one or more entries. Each entry consists ...
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