CHAPTER 22
Delegates, Anonymous Methods, and Lambdas
Delegates are similar to interfaces, in that they specify a contract between a caller and an implementer. Rather than specifying a set of methods, a delegate merely specifies the form of a single function. Also, interfaces are created at compile time and are a fixed aspect of a type, whereas delegates are created at runtime and can be used to dynamically hook up callbacks between objects that were not originally designed to work together.
Delegates are used as the basis for events in C#, which are the general-purpose notification mechanisms used by the .NET Framework, and they are the subject ...
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