what is the target for a delegate

Well, you can start here: How to use delegates[^]

Once you know how to use delegates, I think you'll figure out what the target is.

The target of a delegate is a method (or methods) who's signature matches that of the delegate exactly.

Delegates is a type that reference Method. When it assigned by a method it behaves exactly same as that method. It can be used as parameters and can be returned a value. So it has same what are the methods have.

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Hi Delegate is a reference of a method.You find it very useful when you need to call
a method of parent from the child control.Because you cant access any method of parent from child.

Declare delegate in child control . In parent control point it . and call when needed from child.

try to surf google first.
have a look at:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.delegate.target.aspx[^]

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.delegate.target%28v=vs.71%29.aspx[^]