Cast a property to its actual type dynamically using reflection

Question

I need to cast a property to its actual type dynamically. How do I/Can I do this using reflection?

To explain the real scenario that I am working on a bit. I am tryi

Answer 1

Type resultType = typeof(T);
IEnumerable properties = TypeDescriptor.GetProperties(resultType).Cast();

object instance = Activator.CreateInstance(resultType);

var objValue = "VALUE FOR HEADER";
var resultHeader = "HeaderName";
var prop = properties.Single(p => string.Equals(p.Name, resultHeader, StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase));

var targetType = Nullable.GetUnderlyingType(prop.PropertyType) !=null Nullable.GetUnderlyingType(prop.PropertyType):prop.PropertyType;

objValue  = Convert.ChangeType(objValue , targetType);
prop.SetValue(instance, objValue );

//return instance;