Func<T1, T2, T3, TResult> Delegate
Encapsulates a method that has three parameters and returns a value of the type specified by the TResult parameter.
Namespace: System
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
Type Parameters
- in T1
The type of the first parameter of the method that this delegate encapsulates.
This type parameter is contravariant. That is, you can use either the type you specified or any type that is less derived. For more information about covariance and contravariance, see 2678dc63-c7f9-4590-9ddc-0a4df684d42e.
- in T2
The type of the second parameter of the method that this delegate encapsulates.
- in T3
The type of the third parameter of the method that this delegate encapsulates.
- out TResult
The type of the return value of the method that this delegate encapsulates.
This type parameter is covariant. That is, you can use either the type you specified or any type that is more derived. For more information about covariance and contravariance, see 2678dc63-c7f9-4590-9ddc-0a4df684d42e.
Parameters
- arg1
- Type: T1
The first parameter of the method that this delegate encapsulates.
- arg2
- Type: T2
The second parameter of the method that this delegate encapsulates.
- arg3
- Type: T3
The third parameter of the method that this delegate encapsulates.
Return Value
Type: TResultThe return value of the method that this delegate encapsulates.
You can use this delegate to represent a method that can be passed as a parameter without explicitly declaring a custom delegate. The method must correspond to the method signature that is defined by this delegate. This means that the encapsulated method must have three parameters, each of which is passed to it by value, and that it must return a value.
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To reference a method that has three parameters and returns void (or in Visual Basic, that is declared as a Sub rather than as a Function), use the generic Action<T1, T2, T3> delegate instead. |
When you use the Func<T1, T2, T3, TResult> delegate, you do not have to explicitly define a delegate that encapsulates a method with three parameters. For example, the following code explicitly declares a generic delegate named ParseNumber and assigns a reference to the Parse method to its delegate instance.
The following example simplifies this code by instantiating the Func<T1, T2, T3, TResult> delegate rather than explicitly defining a new delegate and assigning a named method to it.
You can use the Func<T1, T2, T3, TResult> delegate with anonymous methods in C#, as the following example illustrates.
using System; using System.Globalization; public class Example { public static void Demo(System.Windows.Controls.TextBlock outputBlock) { string numericString = "-1,234"; Func<string, NumberStyles, IFormatProvider, int> parser = delegate(string s, NumberStyles sty, IFormatProvider p) { return int.Parse(s, sty, p); }; outputBlock.Text += parser(numericString, NumberStyles.Integer | NumberStyles.AllowThousands, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture) + "\n"; } }
You can also assign a lambda expression to a Func<T1, T2, T3, TResult> delegate, as the following example illustrates.
The underlying type of a lambda expression is one of the generic Func delegates. This makes it possible to pass a lambda expression as a parameter without explicitly assigning it to a delegate. In particular, because many methods of types in the System.Linq namespace have Func parameters, you can pass these methods a lambda expression without explicitly instantiating a Func delegate.
The following example demonstrates how to declare and use a Func<T1, T2, TResult> delegate. This example declares a Func<T1, T2, TResult> variable and assigns it a lambda expression that takes a String value and an Int32 value as parameters. The lambda expression returns true if the length of the String parameter is equal to the value of the Int32 parameter. The delegate that encapsulates this method is subsequently used in a query to filter strings in an array of strings.
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