C# delegate not bound to an instance?

Question

Is there a way to store a delegate without binding it to an object like how you can with a MethodInfo? Right now I am storing a MethodInfo so I can give it the object to cal

Answer 1

You can use the Delegate.CreateDelegate method to create a strongly-typed delegate for a MethodInfo.

If you don't know the method's signature at compile-time, you can either create a Func<...> using Reflection, or create a lambda expression that invokes the MethodInfo:

MethodInfo methodInfo = ...;
object thisObj = ...;
Func callMethod = args => methodInfo.Invoke(thisObj, args);

(This is called currying)

Note that this will still have the performance hit from reflection every time the delegate is called, unlike Delegate.CreateDelegate.