Recall that an instance of a delegate is an object that refers to one or more methods. Code that has access to the delegate instance can execute the various methods via the delegate.
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| private delegate void StringHandlerDelegate(string s);static void Main(){ StringHandlerDelegate del1 = Method1; del1("Invoked via delegate");}static void Method1(string text){ Console.WriteLine(text);} |
An anonymous method is a shorthand for declaring a delegate instance that allows declaring the code to execute as part of the delegate’s declaration, rather than in a separate method.
The code below is equivalent to the example above, but using an anonymous method, rather than a separately defined method.
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| private delegate void StringHandlerDelegate(string s);static void Main(){ StringHandlerDelegate del1 = delegate (string s) { Console.WriteLine(s); }; del1("Invoked via delegate");} |