Delegate functions have to be static?

[Bryan Bullard]

Hi,

I've been looking at examples of delegates in C#. All the examples show
delegates are references to static methods. Can delegates be used with
instance methods?

Thanks in advance,
Bryan

 

[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

Bryan,

Yes, absolutely they can. All you have to do is when creating the
delegate, pass the variable name with a reference, then the method name,
like so:

// Say that MyObject has a method that has the signature of the EventHandler
delegate
// called SomeMethod. You can do:
MyObject pobjObject = new MyObject();

// Create the event handler.
EventHandler pobjHandler = new EventHanlder(pobjObject.SomeMethod);

Hope this helps.

 

[Shakir Hussain]

Bryan,

Delegate can be mapped to static and instance methods.you may have to look
this page.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/csref/html/
vcwlkdelegatestutorial.asp


Shak.

 

[Bryan Bullard]

Bryan,

Yes, absolutely they can. All you have to do is when creating the
delegate, pass the variable name with a reference, then the method name,
like so:

// Say that MyObject has a method that has the signature of the EventHandler
delegate
// called SomeMethod. You can do:
MyObject pobjObject = new MyObject();

// Create the event handler.
EventHandler pobjHandler = new EventHanlder(pobjObject.SomeMethod);

Hope this helps.

....

Very helpful, thanks.