C# LINQ Background Topics

Delegates - As parameters

Still referring to the FuncTwoInts type, previously declared as:

private delegate int FuncTwoInts(int one, int two);

Declaring a method with a delegate argument

The FuncTwoInts type can be used to declare method parameters, as shown here:

private static void PrintWith_2and4(FuncTwoInts func)
{
    int result = func(2, 4);
    Console.WriteLine(result);
}

The method PrintWith_2and4() takes a delegate as an argument. The passed-in delegate must match the FuncTwoInts type, meaning that it must accept two int parameters and return an int.

Passing a delegate to a method

Here are some examples of how the PrintWith_2and4() method can be called:

private static void Execute()
{
    // Prints 8
    PrintWith_2and4((first, second) => first * second);

    // Prints 6
    PrintWith_2and4((one, two) => one + two);

    // Prints 224
    PrintWith_2and4((a, b) => int.Parse($"{a}{a}{b}"));

    // Prints 9999
    PrintWith_2and4((foo, bar) => 9999);
}

For each of the above calls, PrintWith_2and4() executes the provided method reference with 2 and 4 as arguments, and then prints the result.

Exercise

In this exercise, you must pass either a method delegate or a lambda expression to the TestSayHello() method in order to produce the desired result. The delegate parameter takes a single string argument and returns a string result.