C# 0 The Complete Reference

PART I

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PART IPART I

of the anonymous method and is now the preferred approach to creating an anonymous 

function. However, anonymous methods are widely used in existing C# code. Therefore, 

they are still an important part of C#. Furthermore, anonymous methods are the precursor 

to lambda expressions and a clear understanding of anonymous methods makes it easier to 

understand aspects of the lambda expression. Also, there is a narrow set of cases in which 

an anonymous method can be used, but a lambda expression cannot. Therefore, both 

anonymous methods and lambda expressions are described in this chapter.