a constructor as a delegate - is it possible in C#?

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Published on 2009-10-21T13:04:51Z Indexed on 2010/03/22 10:01 UTC
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I have a class like below:

class Foo
{
  public Foo(int x) { ... }
}

and I need to pass to a certain method a delegate like this:

delegate Foo FooGenerator(int x);

Is it possible to pass the constructor directly as a FooGenerator value, without having to type:

delegate(int x) { return new Foo(x); }

?

EDIT: For my personal use, the question refers to .NET 2.0, but hints/responses for 3.0+ are welcome as well.

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