I have started working with ASP.NET controls and there appeared a question:
“why events in ASP controls are defined as delegates, and not as methods”?
I have started working with ASP.NET controls and there appeared a question: why events
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I have started working with ASP.NET controls and there appeared a question:
“why events in ASP controls are defined as delegates, and not as methods”?
Because an event must point to the function that it fires somehow and in C# this mechanism is achieved by delegates.
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Because Java uses the old traditional event pattern (like in C++). C# delegates are easier to use and also allow you to point to a static function rather than forcing the use of a class method.