This article takes a look at Project Orleans, an actor model framework from Microsoft. Version 7 makes it a lot easier to get started with, as it builds on top of the .NET IHost abstraction. This ...

Delegates are type safe function pointers *with an optional this pointer* thus no need to pass one round yourself. Obviously their utility is much enhanced in contract to C++ by virtue of being part ...

Take advantage of delegates to promote flexibility and code reuse in your .NET applications and to implement event-driven programming with ease. A delegate is a type that references a method that has ...

A C# delegate can be bound to a 'this' pointer. A C++ function pointer can't. The utility of this should be obvious to anyone who's ever used C++ function pointers only to discover that they can't be ...