Chapter 18. Delegates and Event Programming
This chapter explores one of the new constructs of C# that has no equivalent in the Java programming language. C#'s language API is peppered with uses of this construct. If you examine the threading and I/O APIs, you'll find that the entire asynchronous callback mechanism is based on this new construct, which is called delegates.
Another reason for the support of delegates in C# concerns function pointers, which have been a popular construct in C++ and C but are not supported in Java. Because Java treats everything as a class, the makers of Java did not find the need for a separate construct for function pointers. C#, however, was not meant to lure only Java programmers. C#'s delegates make C and C++ ...
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