Lambda expression and anonymous method in c#

Question

In interview they ask me one question i.e what is difference between lambda expression and anonymous method in c#. I just told him like Anonymous mehods were introduced in C# 2 and Lambda expression in c# 3. and suppose we have a list of employee and we have to find employee details with id=105 than by using anonymous mehhod we write like: Employee employee= listEmployee.Find(delegate(Employee Emp) { return Emp.ID==105 }); And by using Lambda Expression: Employee employee= listEmployee.Find(Emp=>Emp.ID==102); means we can't use delegate as a parameter in Lambda Expression. Lembda expression is mainly use to writing Linq query expression. But i think Interviewer not satisfy that answer than what i should have to exataly told?

Sujeet Suman · Answer

You answer is not bad but it also depends upon their mood. Gaurav see first we should give answer as short as possible. Then if they are asking to explain then we should start. Like : Difference between lambda expressions & anonymous method : - (01.) Lambda expressions can be converted to expression trees while anonymous method cannot. (02) You can create anonymous delegates without parameter list if you don't plan to use them inside method body with lambda you always have to provide parameters. Your can arrange your points like below : In C# 1.0 you create a delegate instance and initialize with a method reference. C# 2.0 introduced anonymous methods that can be executed with delegate invocation. C# 3.0 introduced lambda expressions are similar in concept to anonymous methods but more expressive. If this is helpful for you then please accept my Answer .