calling an overloaded method in generic method

Question

class Test
{
    public BinaryWriter Content { get; private set; }
    public Test Write (T data)
    {
        Content.Write(data);
        return this;
           


        

Answer 1

You can't do that.

Since real type of T is unknown at compile-time, compiler can't find appropriate Write overload, and tries to call the first found one. There is no overload, which could be called with any type of T (e.g., Write(object)).