Is there any difference between UTF8Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes and Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes?

Question

Today I saw a code in which UTF8Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes and Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes is used. Is there any difference between them?

Answer 1

No difference at all.

Encoding.UTF8 is UTF8Encoding.

From MSDN (Encoding.UTF8):

This property returns a UTF8Encoding object

Instead of Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes you can simply call UTF8Encoding.GetBytes.