public delegate T SampleGenericDelegate<T>();  
  
public static void Test()  
{  
    SampleGenericDelegate<String> dString = () => " ";  
  
    // You can assign the dObject delegate  
    // to the same lambda expression as dString delegate  
    // because of the variance support for
    // matching method signatures with delegate types.  
    SampleGenericDelegate<Object> dObject = () => " ";  
  
    // The following statement generates a compiler error  
    // because the generic type T is not marked as covariant.  
    // SampleGenericDelegate <Object> dObject = dString;  
  
}