C# - how to determine whether a Type is a number

Question

Is there a way to determine whether or not a given .Net Type is a number? For example: System.UInt32/UInt16/Double are all numbers. I want to avoid a long switc

Answer 1

Approach based on Philip's proposal, enhanced with SFun28's inner type check for Nullable types:

public static class IsNumericType
{
    public static bool IsNumeric(this Type type)
    {
        switch (Type.GetTypeCode(type))
        {
            case TypeCode.Byte:
            case TypeCode.SByte:
            case TypeCode.UInt16:
            case TypeCode.UInt32:
            case TypeCode.UInt64:
            case TypeCode.Int16:
            case TypeCode.Int32:
            case TypeCode.Int64:
            case TypeCode.Decimal:
            case TypeCode.Double:
            case TypeCode.Single:
                return true;
            case TypeCode.Object:
                if (type.IsGenericType && type.GetGenericTypeDefinition() == typeof(Nullable<>))
                {
                    return Nullable.GetUnderlyingType(type).IsNumeric();
                    //return IsNumeric(Nullable.GetUnderlyingType(type));
                }
                return false;
            default:
                return false;
        }
    }
}

Why this? I had to check if a given Type type is a numeric type, and not if an arbitrary object o is numeric.