Action(T) Generic Delegate

Tim — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 03:32:53 +0000

Very useful delegate to create anonymous functions…why? This is especially useful when you have repeated code within a function.

This particular example gets a list of tables from a database based on a key that is consumed by the id parameter.

The Action(T) delegate can have zero to several different parameter types.

Action getTables(String id) = delegate() {
List lTables = new Select().From.Where().IsEqualTo(id).ExecuteTypedList();
});

Call the function within the function you declared the anonymous function:

getTables(“1”);

That simple…Awesome!

References:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/018hxwa8.aspx

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