System.Delegate
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System.Delegate is a fundamental .NET type that represents references to methods, enabling type-safe callbacks and event handling.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| System.Delegate canonical | 1 |
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
.NET type
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class ⓘ |
| assembly |
System.Runtime
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mscorlib NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| baseClass | System.Object ⓘ |
| category | type-safe function pointer abstraction ⓘ |
| CLSCompliant | true ⓘ |
| derivedBy | System.MulticastDelegate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| implements | System.Runtime.Serialization.ISerializable NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| introducedIn | .NET Framework 1.0 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isAbstract | true ⓘ |
| isClass | true ⓘ |
| isReferenceType | true ⓘ |
| isSealed | true ⓘ |
| isSerializable | true ⓘ |
| languageSupport |
C#
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F# NERFINISHED ⓘ VB.NET NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| member |
Clone()
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DynamicInvoke(System.Object[]) ⓘ Equals(System.Object) ⓘ GetHashCode() ⓘ GetInvocationList() ⓘ GetType() ⓘ Method ⓘ Target NERFINISHED ⓘ ToString() ⓘ |
| namespace | System NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| platform |
.NET 5+
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.NET Core NERFINISHED ⓘ .NET Framework NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| purpose |
enables event handling
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enables type-safe callbacks ⓘ represents references to methods ⓘ |
| relatedType |
System.Action
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System.EventHandler NERFINISHED ⓘ System.Func`1 NERFINISHED ⓘ System.MulticastDelegate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| staticMember |
Combine(System.Delegate,System.Delegate)
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CreateDelegate(System.Type,System.Object,System.String) ⓘ CreateDelegate(System.Type,System.Reflection.MethodInfo) ⓘ Remove(System.Delegate,System.Delegate) ⓘ RemoveAll(System.Delegate,System.Delegate) ⓘ op_Equality(System.Delegate,System.Delegate) ⓘ op_Inequality(System.Delegate,System.Delegate) ⓘ |
| supports |
closed instance method references
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multicast invocation via System.MulticastDelegate ⓘ open instance method references ⓘ static method references ⓘ |
| threadSafety | invocation is not guaranteed thread-safe ⓘ |
| usedFor |
callback patterns in .NET
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events in .NET ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: System.Delegate Description of subject: System.Delegate is a fundamental .NET type that represents references to methods, enabling type-safe callbacks and event handling.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.