Dynamic TryParse for all data types

Question

I have the need to examine to see if an object can be converted to a specific DataType or not, and came up with this :

public static bool TryParseAll(System         


        

Answer 1

You should use the TypeDescriptor class:

public static T Convert(this string input)
{
    var converter = TypeDescriptor.GetConverter(typeof(T));
    if(converter != null)
    {
        //Cast ConvertFromString(string text) : object to (T)
        return (T)converter.ConvertFromString(input);
    }
    return default(T);
}

of course this will throw an exception if the conversion fails so you will want to try/catch it.