Should I instantiate a new delegate or not?

Question

I just realized I can add an event handler in two ways:

Consider an event handler like so:

private void MyEventHandler()
{}

Method

Answer 1

There is no difference, the generated IL is the same. The shorter form was introduced in .net/c# 2.0 as a convenience function, although Visual Studio still does the first form on Tab Completion.

See this question for some more info.