C# and Generic Delegates

[nelsonbrodyk]

Hey All,
This is a bit of an odd and crazy question, but can you have a method take in a delegate where the delegate signature is not known?

For example: MethodB(Delegate b) {
//call method b somehow
}

and some calls could be like:

object.MethodB((string s)=> {do something});
object.MethodB((int i)=> {something different});

What I would like to do is the following:

I want clients of my code to be able to call a function that will take in 2 delegates (so I don't have a predefined signature), then run the first delegate in a separate thread, then run the second delegate back on the gui thread. I am not sure if this is possible though. Please let me know if you have any ideas or know how this may work.

Thanks

[mldisibio]

Consider creating a generic delegate signature, such as:

 void FlexibleMethodDelegate<TInput>(TInput val)

if you won't have a return value, or

TOutput FlexibleMethodDelegate<TInput, TOutput>(TInput val)

if you need flexibility in what you return.

So then MethodB becomes

MethodB(FlexibleMethodDelegate<TInput> m){m();}