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What are delegates?

April 26, 2017delegates

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What are delegates?

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A delegate is a class derived from System.Delegate. However the language has a special syntax for declaring delegates which means that they don’t look like classes. A delegate represents a method with a particular signature. An instance of a delegate represents a method with a particular signature on a particular object (or class in the case of a static method). For example: using System; delegate void Stereotype(); class CAmerican { public void BePatriotic() { Console.WriteLine( “… … God bless America.”); } } class CBrit { public void BeXenophobic() { Console.WriteLine( “Bloody foreigners … ” ); } } class CApplication { public static void RevealYourStereotype( Stereotype[] stereotypes ) { foreach( Stereotype s in stereotypes ) s(); } public static void Main() { CAmerican chuck = new CAmerican(); CBrit edward = new CBrit(); // Create our list of sterotypes. Stereotype[] stereotypes = new Stereotype[2]; stereotypes[0] = new Stereotype( chuck.BePatriotic ); stereotypes[1] = new St