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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Anonymous functions were introduced in the C# programming language long ago. Although anonymous functions have many benefits, they are not cheap. Avoiding unnecessary allocations matters, and this is ...

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 ...