Multicasting with Action

Func and Action are inherited from System.MulticastDelegate, which means that you could actually do multicasting with them and add multiple methods to the InvocationList. Let’s check how we do it.

Action Action1 = () => Console.WriteLine($"Hello From {nameof(Action1)}");
Action Action2 = () => Console.WriteLine($"Hello From {nameof(Action2)}");
Action Action3 = () => Console.WriteLine($"Hello From {nameof(Action3)}");
Action Action4 = () => Console.WriteLine($"Hello From {nameof(Action4)}");
Action Actions = Action1 + Action2 + Action3 + Action4;
Console.WriteLine($"Length of Invocation List :  {Actions.GetInvocationList().GetLength(0)}");
Actions();

Output of above code would be

Hello From Action1
Hello From Action2
Hello From Action3
Hello From Action4

The same can be done with Func as well. How do we remove one Action , same syntax as the delegates.

Actions -= Action4;

In fact, we could also use Actions instead of specifying delegates for events.

void Main()
{
  var demo = new DemoClass();
  demo.OutOfRange += ()=> Console.WriteLine("Out of Range");
  demo.NotAllowed += (x)=> Console.WriteLine($"Not Allowed : {x}");
  demo.Method1();
}
public class DemoClass
{
public event Action OutOfRange;
public event Action NotAllowed;
public void Method1()
{
       if(OutOfRange != null)
       OutOfRange();

       if(NotAllowed !=null)
       NotAllowed("Hey that's not allowed");
}
}