What you write is true, but off the mark. I think what they're looking for is delegate for a property, not a delegate that uses a property. Something that captures both the getter and setter. For example, to bind the delegated property to a control.

In C# 3.0 if you want to make a delegate that obtains a property value, all you have to say is:

() => person.FirstName;

For example:

Func<string> getter = () => person.FirstName;

Console.WriteLine(getter());

Similarly to capture the setter:

Action<string> setter = v => person.FirstName = v;

Lambda syntax is so succinct that it makes many common scenarios very readable without the need for dozens of special syntaxes.

I think the real lazy people are those who don't bother to learn about the various things the C# designers got right!

public static Func<T> GetPropertyDelegate
(object obj, string name)
{
return (Func<T>) Delegate.CreateDelegate(typeof(Func<T>),obj,methodName);
}

public static Func GetPropertyDelegate
(object obj, string name)
{
return FuncDelegate.CreateDelegate(typeof(Func),obj,methodName);
}

Not typesafe, but when you actually need a property delegate it makes do.

This would be about #3 on my list of shocking laziness on the part of c# designers.