Delegates are type safe function pointers *with an optional this pointer* thus no need to pass one round yourself. Obviously their utility is much enhanced in contract to C++ by virtue of being part ...

This article takes a look at Project Orleans, an actor model framework from Microsoft. Version 7 makes it a lot easier to get started with, as it builds on top of the .NET IHost abstraction. This ...

Learn how managed pointers differ from object references, why they are useful, and how to work with them in C# A pointer is a variable that points to the address of another variable. In other words, a ...

A C# delegate can be bound to a 'this' pointer. A C++ function pointer can't. The utility of this should be obvious to anyone who's ever used C++ function pointers only to discover that they can't be ...