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title: "What is a Delegate?"  
description: "What is a Delegate?"  
author: "Anonymous User"  
published: 2010-10-15  
updated: 2020-09-23  
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category: ".net"  
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# What is a Delegate?

A delegate is a form of type-safe function pointer used by the .NET Framework. Delegates specify a method to call and optionally an object to call the method on. They are used, among other things, to implement callbacks and event listeners. It encapsulates a reference of a method inside a delegate object. The delegate object can then be passed to code which can call the referenced method, without having to know at compile time which method will be invoked.\
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## Answers

### Answer by Amit Singh

**Delegates** are similar to object references, but are used to reference methods instead of objects. The type of a delegate is type or signature of the method rather than class. Hence a delegate has three properties:\
The type or signature of the method that the delegate can point to\
The delegate reference which can we used to reference a method\
The actual method referenced by the delegate\

### Answer by Pushpendra Singh

A delegate is a form of type-safe function pointer used by the .NET Framework. Delegates specify a method to call and optionally an object to call the method on. They are used, among other things, to implement callbacks and event listeners. It encapsulates a reference of a method inside a delegate object. The delegate object can then be passed to code which can call the referenced method, without having to know at compile time which method will be invoked.\
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