Implied generic parameter types

I'm not sure of the exact name of this feature, but I stumbled across it today. If a generic method uses the type for a parameter, the complier assumes the generic type, which makes for cleaner code.

using System;

class Program
{
    static void Main()
    {
        MyClass.WriteInputStatic("test");
        MyClass obj = new MyClass();
        obj.WriteInput(12);
    }
}

public class MyClass
{
    public static void WriteInputStatic<T>(T input) { Console.WriteLine(input); }
    public void WriteInput<T>(T input) { Console.WriteLine(input); }
}

  I can’t think of many use cases, but kind of a cool feature anyway. I was using it to serialize and deserialize a type for testing the correct serialization/deserialization.


  

internal static T Serialize<T>(T worker) where T : class
{
    MemoryStream serializationStream = new MemoryStream();
    new BinaryFormatter().Serialize(serializationStream, worker);
    byte[] bytes = serializationStream.ToArray();

    MemoryStream deserializationStream = new MemoryStream(bytes);
    object obj = new BinaryFormatter().Deserialize(deserializationStream);
    return obj as T;
}