Can I tie an anonymous function to a Timer's tick event?

Question

If a Tick-handling function will only be used in one context (i.e. always in the same function in combination with the same Timer object), why bother make it a separate function

Answer 1

You use the delegate keyword for anonymous methods:

Timer myTimer = new Timer();
myTimer.Tick += delegate(object sender, EventArgs e) {
  MessageBox.Show("Hello world!");
};

In C# 3.0 and later, you can also use lambdas:

Timer myTimer = new Timer();
myTimer.Tick += (sender, e) => MessageBox.Show("Hello world!");