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.Net - What is a delegate? Explain how to create it. - June 03, 2009 at 11:00 AM by Shuchi Gauri

What is a delegate? Explain how to create it.

A delegate declares a ref type that references a named of anonymous method. Delegates are secure and type-safe. Consider them as type safe function pointers.

public delegate void Del<T>(T item);

Del<int> d1 = new Del<int>(Notify);

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