Is there a benefit to explicit use of “new EventHandler” declaration?

Question

In assigning event handlers to something like a context MenuItem, for instance, there are two acceptable syntaxes:

MenuItem item = new MenuItem(         


        

Answer 1

In C# 1.0 you had no choice but to explicitly define the delegate type and the target.

Since C# 2.0 the compiler allows you to express yourself in a more succinct manner by means of an implicit conversion from a method group to a compatible delegate type. It's really just syntactic sugar.

Sometimes you have no choice but to use the long-winded syntax if the correct overload cannot be resolved from the method group due to an ambiguity.