Question

A variable of the type Int32 won’t be threated as Int32 if we cast it to ‘Object’ before passing to the overloaded methods below:

public static void MethodName(int a) {     Console.WriteLine('int'); }  public static void MethodName(object a) {     Console.ReadLine(); } 

To handle it as an Int32 even if it is cast to ‘Object’ can be achieved through reflection:

public static void MethodName(object a) {     if(a.GetType() == typeof(int))     {         Console.WriteLine('int');     }     else     {         Console.ReadLine();     } } 

Is there another way to do that? Maybe using Generics?

Answer 1

public static void MethodName(object a) {         if(a is int)         {                 Console.WriteLine('int');         }         else         {                 Console.WriteLine('object');         } }