Please Explain .NET Delegates

Question

So I read MSDN and Stack Overflow. I understand what the Action Delegate does in general but it is not clicking no matter how many examples I do. In general, the same goes f

Answer 1

They confused the hell out of me until I read:

1. Andrew Troelsen's explanation of them in Pro C# 2008 and the .Net 3.5 Platform
2. The chapter on the Observer pattern in Head First Design Patterns

That second book is about java, and doesn't mention delegates, but it explains well a problem delegates help solve: communication between classes.