RE: MultiCastDelegate

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From: Richard Blewett [DevelopMentor] (richardb_at_NOSPAMdevelop.com)
Date: 11/12/04 

To: microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.csharp
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 03:18:39 -0800

There were two types of delegates in beta 1 of 1.0 but then they realised a single target delegate was really only a multicast delegate with only one entry in its invocation list and so simplified the model to what you see today.

 Regards

 Richard Blewett - DevelopMentor
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   Hi Richard,
 
 I agree that this is indeed the case as is evident in the IL.
 
 But ideally, I don't feel this should be the case. I feel that it should be
 the way as described in the MSDN page @: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfSystemMulticastDelegateClassTopic.asp
 
 But for some reason, it seems it is not as is documented.
 
 HTH,
 Rakesh Rajan

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