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· Be passed as an argument to another function
· Return as a value from a function
· Be assigned to a variable
This is the second part of the series in 11 Things about JavaScript Functions that .NET Developers Should Know . You can find part 1 on our blog, and in this part of the series we will discuss:
As noted in our 14.1 launch in the spring, we talked about three main areas of focus for this year: