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

This may work as well. However, you may want to follow it up with a Type.Parse to cast it the way you want it afterwards.

public bool IsNumeric(object value)
{
    float testValue;
    return float.TryParse(value.ToString(), out testValue);
}