Delegate in C# with Example
A delegate is a reference type. To create a delegate, we make use of a delegate keyword. The syntax of a delegate is pretty much similar to the syntax of a method, but with a delegate keyword. A delegate always holds reference to a method and whenever you invoke the delegate, that method will be invoked. We have seen how to pass different type of parameters like string, int, float, double, etc but a delegate helps you to pass a method as a parameter and you can invoke it at any point in time.
Creating an instance of delegate is similar to creating an instance of a class, but you must pass a method name to it. The return type and signature of the method should match the return type and signature of the delegate, that is why a delegate is also called type safe function pointer.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
namespace Hello
{
//Delegate declaration
public delegate void mydelegate(string name);
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
mydelegate _myname = new mydelegate(PrintName);
_myname("Peter Parker");
}
//Method to pass
public static void PrintName(string name)
{
Console.WriteLine("My name is {0}.", name);
}
}
}
