From Java to C#: A Developer's Guide

14.4. Removing delegates

As well as combining, you can also remove methods from a delegate instance using the - operator. It is possible to have a delegate instance with no method in its invocation list. However, when such a delegate instance is invoked, a System.NullReferenceException is thrown.

It is also possible to have a method in the list more than once. For example, this statement is perfectly legal:

MyDelegate compositeDelegate = d1 + d1;

When you attempt to remove a method which does not exist in the invocation list, nothing happens.

When you remove a method which occurs more than once in the list, the last is removed. Assuming that d1, d2, and d3 represent delegate instances encapsulating Method1, Method2, and Method3 respectively, ...