Delegates

[vb.bajpai]

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?

[creatorul]

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.

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

[vb.bajpai]

thanx !