Closures are chunks of code that reference a variable outside themselves, (from below them on the stack), that might be called or executed later, (like when an event or delegate is defined, and could get called at some indefinite future point in time)... Because the outside variable that the chunk of code references may gone out of scope (and would otherwise have been lost), the fact that it is referenced by the chunk of code (called a closure) tells the runtime to "hold" that variable in scope until it is no longer needed by the closure chunk of code...

Closures are chunks of code that reference a variable outside themselves, (from below them on the stack), that might be called or executed later, (like when an event or delegate is defined, and could get called at some indefinite future point in time)... Because the outside variable that the chunk of code references may gone out of scope (and would otherwise have been lost), the fact that it is referenced by the chunk of code (called a closure) tells the runtime to "hold" that variable in scope until it is no longer needed by the closure chunk of code...

这是c# 7.0概要书中一个简单易懂的答案。

您应该知道的先决条件:lambda表达式可以引用方法的局部变量和参数 其中它被定义(外部变量)。

static void Main()
{
    int factor = 2;
   //Here factor is the variable that takes part in lambda expression.
    Func<int, int> multiplier = n => n * factor;
    Console.WriteLine (multiplier (3)); // 6
}

实部分:lambda表达式引用的外部变量称为捕获变量。捕获变量的lambda表达式称为闭包。

最后需要注意的一点:被捕获的变量是在委托实际调用时计算的，而不是在变量被捕获时计算的:

int factor = 2;
Func<int, int> multiplier = n => n * factor;
factor = 10;
Console.WriteLine (multiplier (3)); // 30

下面是我从JavaScript中类似的代码创建的c#人为示例:

public delegate T Iterator<T>() where T : class;

public Iterator<T> CreateIterator<T>(IList<T> x) where T : class
{
    var i = 0; 
    return delegate { return (i < x.Count) ? x[i++] : null; };
}

所以，这里有一些代码，展示了如何使用上面的代码…

var iterator = CreateIterator(new string[3] { "Foo", "Bar", "Baz"});

// So, although CreateIterator() has been called and returned, the variable 
// "i" within CreateIterator() will live on because of a closure created 
// within that method, so that every time the anonymous delegate returned 
// from it is called (by calling iterator()) it's value will increment.

string currentString;    
currentString = iterator(); // currentString is now "Foo"
currentString = iterator(); // currentString is now "Bar"
currentString = iterator(); // currentString is now "Baz"
currentString = iterator(); // currentString is now null

希望这对大家有所帮助。

闭包是在函数中定义的函数，可以访问它的局部变量以及它的父变量。

public string GetByName(string name)
{
    List<things> theThings = new List<things>();
    return  theThings.Find<things>(t => t.Name == name)[0];
}

find方法中的函数。

t => t.Name == name

可以访问其作用域中的变量t，以及父作用域中的变量名。即使它是由find方法作为委托从另一个作用域执行的。

基本上闭包是一段代码，你可以把它作为参数传递给函数。c#支持匿名委托形式的闭包。

这里有一个简单的例子: 列表。Find方法可以接受并执行一段代码(闭包)来查找列表的项。

// Passing a block of code as a function argument
List<int> ints = new List<int> {1, 2, 3};
ints.Find(delegate(int value) { return value == 1; });

使用c# 3.0语法，我们可以这样写:

ints.Find(value => value == 1);