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

They are all value types (except for bool and maybe enum). So you could simply use:

bool IsNumberic(object o)
{
    return (o is System.ValueType && !(o is System.Boolean) && !(o is System.Enum))
}