Built-in Delegate Types

Use built-in delegate types instead of defining new delegates.

Remember that a delegate’s declaration essentially defines a method signature with a return type. Instead of defining our own delegates, we can use delegates provided by the .NET platform.

The Action delegate

The Action delegate is a generic delegate with the following definition:

public delegate void Action<T>(T parameter);

It returns void and accepts a type T parameter. We can directly instantiate it:

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