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What are delegates in C#?
A delegate in C# is a reference to the method. A delegate is a reference type variable that holds the reference to a method. The reference can be changed at runtime.
Delegates are especially used for implementing events and the call-back methods. All delegates are implicitly derived from the System.Delegate class.
Let us see how to declare delegates in C#.
delegate <return type> <delegate-name> <parameter list>
Let us see an example to learn how to work with Delegates in C#.
Example
using System;
using System.IO;
namespace DelegateAppl {
class PrintString {
static FileStream fs;
static StreamWriter sw;
// delegate declaration
public delegate void printString(string s);
// this method prints to the console
public static void WriteToScreen(string str) {
Console.WriteLine("The String is: {0}", str);
}
//this method prints to a file
public static void WriteToFile(string s) {
fs = new FileStream("c:\message.txt",
FileMode.Append, FileAccess.Write);
sw = new StreamWriter(fs);
sw.WriteLine(s);
sw.Flush();
sw.Close();
fs.Close();
}
// this method takes the delegate as a parameter and uses it to
// call the methods as required
public static void sendString(printString ps) {
ps("Hello World");
}
static void Main(string[] args) {
printString ps1 = new printString(WriteToScreen);
printString ps2 = new printString(WriteToFile);
sendString(ps1);
sendString(ps2);
Console.ReadKey();
}
}
}Output
The String is: Hello World
Updated on: 20-Jun-2020
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