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

The only time when this is useful is if it would otherwise be ambiguous - for example, if it was MenuItem(string, Delegate) - of if there were multiple equally matching overloads that would match the signature. This also includes var syntax (shown below) and generic type inference (not shown):

EventHandler handler = SomeMethod; // fine
EventHandler handler = new EventHandler(SomeMethod); // fine
var handler = new EventHandler(SomeMethod); // fine
var handler = (EventHandler)SomeMethod; // fine
var handler = SomeMethod; // not fine

In all other cases, it is redundant and is unnecessary in any compiler from 2.0 onwards.