Am studying about delegates. As I read. I learned that adding more than one function in a delegate is called multicast delegate. Based on that I wrote a program. Here two functi
Multicast delegates is one of the feature of delegates, it wraps the reference of multiple methods and calls it sequentially and it is also known as Delegate Chaining.
Below is the example of multicast delegates.
// Declare Delegates
public delegate void MultiCast(int num1, int num2);
class Program
{
public void Add(int num1, int num2)
{
Console.WriteLine(num1 + num2);
}
public void Sub(int num1, int num2)
{
Console.WriteLine(num1 - num2);
}
public void Mul(int num1, int num2)
{
Console.WriteLine(num1 * num2);
}
static void Main(string[] args)
{
MultiCast del1, del2, del3, multAddDel, multSubDel;
del1 = new Program().Add;
del2 = new Program().Sub;
del3 = new Program().Mul;
//`There are three ways to define the multicast delegate.`
//1 way
//Adding delegates
multAddDel = del1 + del2 + del3;
multAddDel(10, 10);
//Removing Delegates
multSubDel = multAddDel - del3;
multSubDel(10, 10);
Console.WriteLine();
Console.WriteLine("Second Way");
//2 way
MultiCast multAddDel1 = null;
//Adding delegates
multAddDel1 += del1;
multAddDel1 += del2;
multAddDel1 += del3;
multAddDel1(10, 10);
//Removing Delegates
multAddDel1 -= del3;
multAddDel1(10, 10);
Console.WriteLine();
Console.WriteLine("Third Way");
//3 way
MultiCast multAddDel2 = null;
//Adding delegates
multAddDel2 = (MultiCast)Delegate.Combine(multAddDel2, del1);
multAddDel2 = (MultiCast)Delegate.Combine(multAddDel2, del2);
multAddDel2 = (MultiCast)Delegate.Combine(multAddDel2, del3);
multAddDel2(10, 10);
//Removing Delegates
multAddDel2 = (MultiCast)
Delegate.Remove(multAddDel2, del3);
multAddDel2(10, 10);
Console.ReadLine();
}
}