CSharp - Writing Plug-in Methods with Delegates

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Introduction

A delegate is useful for writing plug-in methods.

In the following code we create a utility method named Convert that applies a transform to each element in an integer array.

The Convert method has a delegate parameter, for specifying a plug-in transform.

Convert method is a higher-order function, because it's a function that takes a function as an argument.

Demo

using System;
delegate int ConverterFunction (int x);

class Util//from  ww  w. jav  a2  s.  c  o  m
{
       public static void Convert (int[] values, ConverterFunction t)
       {
         for (int i = 0; i < values.Length; i++)
           values[i] = t (values[i]);
       }
}

class Test
{
       static void Main()
       {
         int[] values = { 1, 2, 3 };
         Util.Convert (values, Square);      // Hook in the Square method
         foreach (int i in values)
           Console.Write (i + "  ");           // 1   4   9
       }

       static int Square (int x) => x * x;
}

Result

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