How to test whether a value is boxed in C# / .NET?

Question

I\'m looking for a way to write code that tests whether a value is boxed.

My preliminary investigations indicate that .NET goes out of its way to conceal the fact,

Answer 1

I'm not sure if this will be relevant to anyone, but since I encountered this post because boxing was actually impacting my very dynamic mapping.

Sigil proivdes a fantastic UnBoxAny method

Assuming you have the following:

public class Report { public decimal Total { get; set; } }

new Dictionary { { "Total", 5m} }

So the decimal value is boxed.

var totalProperty = typeof(Report).GetProperty("Total");

var value = emit.DeclareLocal