What is Delegation?

A delegate acts like a strongly type function pointer. Delegates can invoke the methods that they reference without making explicit calls to those methods.
Delegate is an entity that is entrusted with the task of representation, assign or passing on information. In code sense, it means a Delegate is entrusted with a Method to report information back to it when a certain task (which the Method expects) is accomplished outside the Method's class.

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sanker

Nov 10th, 2005

Delegate are a referenced type that refers to shared method of type or a to an instance method of an object

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Jan 16th, 2006

A delegate is a type-safe function pointer. Delegates are used in event handling.
Delegates are declared using the following syntax:
public delegate <return type> MyDelegate(<parameter list>);