Which C# method overload is chosen?

Question

Why is the generic method called when both overloads would match?

public static void method1(object obj)
{
    Console.WriteLine(\"Object\");
}

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Answer 1

Because you are already passing in T as a parameter so you don't need to type out method1("xyz");you can just go method1("xyz");, .Net already knows it's a string. If you had method1 then it would be a different story.

Also since method1(object obj) doesn't take in a string as parameter it will favor the generic function first where it can infer T. If you were to change method1(object obj) to method1(string obj) it would favor it first then the generic.