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

It's syntax for older version of C# compiler (<=1.1). Not needed anymore. Current compilers are sophisticated enough to get it right.

There's one (little) benefit, sometimes. If you assign event handlers by "+=", the Intellisense autocomplete feature may make writing code a bit faster.