How to return value with anonymous method?

Question

This fails

string temp = () => {return \"test\";};

with the error

Cannot convert lambda expression to type \'str

Answer 1

Using a little helper function and generics you can let the compiler infer the type, and shorten it a little bit:

public static TOut FuncInvoke(Func func)
{
    return func();
}

var temp = FuncInvoke(()=>"test");

Side note: this is also nice as you then are able to return an anonymous type:

var temp = FuncInvoke(()=>new {foo=1,bar=2});