How to use closures in C#

Closures are often associated with functional programming languages. Closures connect a function to its referencing environment, allowing the function to access non-local variables. In C#, closures are supported using anonymous methods, lambda expressions, and delegates.

I have discussed anonymous methods and lambda expressions in previous articles. So what’s a delegate? A delegate is a type-safe function pointer that can reference a method that has the same signature as that of the delegate. Delegates are used to define callback methods and implement event handling.

To read this article in full, please click here