What is the difference between lambdas and delegates in the .NET Framework?

Question

I get asked this question a lot and I thought I\'d solicit some input on how to best describe the difference.

Answer 1

lambdas are simply syntactic sugar on a delegate. The compiler ends up converting lambdas into delegates.

These are the same, I believe:

Delegate delegate = x => "hi!";
Delegate delegate = delegate(object x) { return "hi";};