Generic methods and method overloading

Question

Method overloading allows us to define many methods with the same name but with a different set of parameters ( thus with the same name but different signature ).

A

Answer 1

Yes, they are overloaded. The compiler is supposed to prefer explicit method signatures against generic methods if they are available. Beware, however, that if you can avoid this kind of overload you probably should. There have been bug reports with respect to this sort of overload and unexpected behaviors.

https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/522202/c-3-0-generic-overload-call-resolution-from-within-generic-function