Cast object to T

Question

I\'m parsing an XML file with the XmlReader class in .NET and I thought it would be smart to write a generic parse function to read different attributes generic

Answer 1

First check to see if it can be cast.

if (readData is T) {
    return (T)readData;
} 
try {
   return (T)Convert.ChangeType(readData, typeof(T));
} 
catch (InvalidCastException) {
   return default(T);
}