Delegates

I have a book that says:-

a delegate may be defined in the following places:-
1) Inside a class - ok!
2) Outside all classes - ok!
3) As a top level object in a namespace - huh??

please can some1 throw light on 3rd?

Perfectly legal. You can see the Delegate like a blueprint ( or like a class ) . First you declare it and then you instantiate it. You don't need to declare it in a class.

Code:

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namespace WindowsApplication1
{
publicdelegatevoidMyDelegate();
publicpartialclassForm1 : Form
{
        MyDelegate del;
        privatevoid DoNothing()
  {
  MessageBox.Show("nothing");
  }
  public Form1()
  {
  InitializeComponent();
  del = newMyDelegate(DoNothing);
        }
}
}

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thanx !