Lambda property value selector as parameter

by 
private string MyMethod(int testParameter, Func<MyObject, string> selector)
{
    return selector(_myObject);
}

When using Func delegates, the last parameter is the return type and the first N-1 are the argument types. In this case, there is a single MyObject argument to selector and it returns a string.

You can invoke it like:

string name = _myClassInstance.MyMethod(1, x => x.Name);
string result = _myClassInstance.MyMethod(1, x => x.Code);

Since the return type of MyMethod matches the return type of your selector delegate, you could make it generic:

private T MyMethod<T>(int testParameter, Func<MyObject, T> selector)
{
    MyObject obj = //
    return selector(obj);
}

I don’t know VB.Net but it looks like it would be:

Public Function MyMethod(testParameter as Integer, selector as Func(Of MyObject, String))
    Return selector(_myObject)
End Function

and the generic version would be:

Public Function MyMethod(Of T)(testParameter as Integer, selector Func(Of MyObject, T))
    Return selector(_myObject)
End Function

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