Invoking delegates

[Pavils Jurjans]

Hello,

I am reading the article
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/is...asicInstincts/ , and, since
the sample code is VB.NET, I am wondering what the heck is the "Invoke"
method :) I used to think that I can simply directly call the delegate
type instance with parameters:

public class Executer
{
public delegate bool TestDelegateType(string strValue);

static bool TestDelegateMethod(string strValue)
{
Console.WriteLine("TestDelegateMethod got value:" + strValue);
return strValue == "ABC";
}

static void Main( )
{
TestDelegateType TestDelegate = new TestDelegateType(TestDelegateMethod);
// Simple call
bool result = TestDelegate("ABC");
Console.WriteLine("Call to TestDelegate returned: " + result);
Console.ReadLine();
}

}

As far as I know, I can not do anything like TestDelegate.Invoke("ABC",
null, null) in C#? So, apparently there is some syntax issue in VB.NET
preventing the direct execution of delegate, and it has to do it via Invoke
method? Please, clear this up for me, so I can have better understanding of
samples where there is no C# code.

Taking it further, what is the simplest C# syntax of launching the given
delegate asynchorously?

Thanks,

Pavils