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

oops! Misread the question! Personally, would roll with Skeet's.

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hrm, sounds like you want to DoSomething on Type of your data. What you could do is the following

public class MyClass
{
    private readonly Dictionary> _map = 
        new Dictionary> ();

    public MyClass ()
    {
        _map.Add (typeof (int), o => return SomeTypeSafeMethod ((int)(o)));
    }

    public SomeResult DoSomething(T numericValue)
    {
        Type valueType = typeof (T);
        if (!_map.Contains (valueType))
        {
            throw new NotSupportedException (
                string.Format (
                "Does not support Type [{0}].", valueType.Name));
        }
        SomeResult result = _map[valueType] (numericValue);
        return result;
    }
}