Generic type conversion FROM string

Question

I have a class that I want to use to store \"properties\" for another class. These properties simply have a name and a value. Ideally, what I would like is to be able to add

Answer 1

With inspiration from the Bob's answer, these extensions also support null value conversion and all primitive conversion back and fourth.

public static class ConversionExtensions
{
        public static object Convert(this object value, Type t)
        {
            Type underlyingType = Nullable.GetUnderlyingType(t);

            if (underlyingType != null && value == null)
            {
                return null;
            }
            Type basetype = underlyingType == null ? t : underlyingType;
            return System.Convert.ChangeType(value, basetype);
        }

        public static T Convert(this object value)
        {
            return (T)value.Convert(typeof(T));
        }
}

Examples

            string stringValue = null;
            int? intResult = stringValue.Convert();

            int? intValue = null;
            var strResult = intValue.Convert();