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Delegate shortcut

Filippo Martinelli

In all the books and articles I read the delegate are assigned using the new operator: public delegate ... anUsufulDelegate (...); anUsufulDelegate doSomething; doSomething = new anUsufulDelegate(a function with a matching signature); But I can more easily write: doSomething = a function with a matching signature; Is the second version simply a shortcut for the one with the new operator and the type of the delegate ? A fast look with a disassembler seems to confirm this. Thanks Filippo

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Serban Cosmin17y ago
Hy, As explained here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms173176(VS.80).aspx, in C# 2.0 it is possible to instantiate a delegate using the way you found. So basically, your code will work as long as you are using C# 2.0 in the same way as with the new operator. Hope this helps.