Methods and dynamic casting in C#

I remember a month ago I was trying to do something similar with C++ and it doesn't work (suprise suprise :> ). I thought I'd see if it'd work in C# - and suprisingly it does. Ok, so what I am I babbling about?

Imagine you have an object Item and another object

StackableItem : Item

, that inherits from Item. Now imagine I have an array of Items. I can put Stackable items in here and I can put items in here, no problem. But when I come to use the array I don't know which are items and which are stackable items. To find out which are which I might use a dynamic cast, or in C# you can use method overloading and the program will do the dynamic cast for you (I assume it does that anyway).

public void AddItem(Item item)

{

    Console.WriteLine("Not so clever");

}

 

/// <summary>

/// Is C# clever enough to go to the correct one?

/// </summary>

/// <param name="item"></param>

public void AddItem(StackableItem item)

{

    Console.WriteLine("Very clever");

}

So in the above if I have:

Item i = new StackableItem();
inventory.AddItem(i);

The second function will be called. Neat right? Yes, yes it is.