What are Action and Func keywords?

Murali Poola

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2 Answers

Action and Func are Generic Delegates in C# Action is a generic Delegate that does not accept any Paramter Input not returns a value. Func is a generic Delegate that accepts Input Parameter and has a return type. General form : Func myFuncDel;

Shankar M13y

They are generic types that help cut down on delegate type declarations. Whereas previously, you'd have to declare your own delegate type for, say, this delegate:
public delegate int MyDelegate(int arg1, double arg2, string arg3);
public MyDelegate mInstance;
You can now declare the instance like this:
public Func mInstance;
Without having to declare the delegate type. The Action<> delegate is the exact same thing, except for delegates that return void.

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