Anonymous Method / no type / no return

[Andrew Robinson]

Is there any general purpose delegate that will allow me to call a method
anonymously. The delegate does not pass any data as part of the method
signature and has a void return. Data is passed as part of the method body.
I am thinking something along the line of Action<null>. Just wondering if
there is a simpler method other than declaring the delegate FredDelegate()?

example:

private delegate void FredDelegate();
private void Fred(FredDelegate action)
{
// code here

action();

// more clode here
}

public void Fred()
{
Fred(delegate() { });
}

public void Fred(FredKey key)
{
Fred(delegate() { this.status = key.status; });
}

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Andrew Robinson <ne****@nospam.nospamwrote:

Is there any general purpose delegate that will allow me to call a method
anonymously. The delegate does not pass any data as part of the method
signature and has a void return. Data is passed as part of the method body.
I am thinking something along the line of Action<null>. Just wondering if
there is a simpler method other than declaring the delegate FredDelegate()?

ThreadStart or MethodInvoker are the ones I know off the top of my
head. In .NET 3.5 there's plain Action, which is a nicer alternative :)

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[Andrew Robinson]

Jon,

Exactly what I was after. Coded my own Action() in a base class with a note
to remove once upgraded to the 3.5 framework.

Thanks
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Andrew Robinson <ne****@nospam.nospamwrote:

>Is there any general purpose delegate that will allow me to call a method
anonymously. The delegate does not pass any data as part of the method
signature and has a void return. Data is passed as part of the method
body.
I am thinking something along the line of Action<null>. Just wondering if
there is a simpler method other than declaring the delegate
FredDelegate()?

ThreadStart or MethodInvoker are the ones I know off the top of my
head. In .NET 3.5 there's plain Action, which is a nicer alternative :)

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Jon Skeet - <sk***@pobox.com>
http://www.pobox.com/~skeet Blog: http://www.msmvps.com/jon.skeet
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