MulticastDelegate Class

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01/16/2013

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Represents a multicast delegate; that is, a delegate that can have more than one element in its invocation list.

Inheritance Hierarchy

System. . :: . .Object
System. . :: . .Delegate
System..::..MulticastDelegate

Namespace: System
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
<SerializableAttribute> _
Public MustInherit Class MulticastDelegate _
    Inherits Delegate

[SerializableAttribute]
public abstract class MulticastDelegate : Delegate

[SerializableAttribute]
public ref class MulticastDelegate abstract : public Delegate

[<AbstractClass>]
[<SerializableAttribute>]
type MulticastDelegate =  
    class
        inherit Delegate
    end

public abstract class MulticastDelegate extends Delegate

The MulticastDelegate type exposes the following members.

Constructors

	Name	Description
	MulticastDelegate	Initializes a new instance of the MulticastDelegate class.

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Properties

	Name	Description
	Method	Gets the method represented by the delegate. (Inherited from Delegate.)
	Target	Gets the class instance on which the current delegate invokes the instance method. (Inherited from Delegate.)

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Methods

	Name	Description
	Equals	Determines whether the specified object and the current delegate are of the same type and share the same targets, methods, and invocation list. (Inherited from Delegate.)
	Finalize	Allows an object to try to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before it is reclaimed by garbage collection. (Inherited from Object.)
	GetHashCode	Serves as a hash function for a particular type. (Inherited from Object.)
	GetType	Gets the Type of the current instance. (Inherited from Object.)
	MemberwiseClone	Creates a shallow copy of the current Object. (Inherited from Object.)
	ToString	Returns a string that represents the current object. (Inherited from Object.)

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Operators

	Name	Description
	Equality	Determines whether two MulticastDelegate objects are equal.
	Inequality	Determines whether two MulticastDelegate objects are not equal.

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Remarks

MulticastDelegate is a special class. Compilers and other tools can derive from this class, but you cannot derive from it explicitly. The same is true of the Delegate class.

A MulticastDelegate has a linked list of delegates, called an invocation list, consisting of one or more elements. When a multicast delegate is invoked, the delegates in the invocation list are called synchronously in the order in which they appear. If an error occurs during execution of the list then an exception is thrown.

Thread Safety

Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.

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