Advantages of using delegates?

Question

I\'m looking to implement the Observer pattern in VB.NET or C# or some other first-class .NET language. I\'ve heard that delegates can be used for this, but can\'t figure ou

Answer 1

Actually there was an interesting back-and-forth between Sun and Microsoft about delegates. While Sun made a fairly strong stance against delegates, I feel that Microsoft made an even stronger point for using delegates. Here are the posts:

http://java.sun.com/docs/white/delegates.html

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vjsharp/bb188664.aspx

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