C#: Dynamic parse from System.Type

Question

I have a Type, a String and an Object.

Is there some way I can call the parse method or convert for that type on the string dynamically?

Basically how do I r

Answer 1

This should work for all primitive types, and for types that implement IConvertible

public static T ConvertTo(object value)
{
    return (T)Convert.ChangeType(value, typeof(T));
}

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EDIT : actually in your case, you can't use generics (not easily at least). Instead you could do that :

object value = Convert.ChangeType(myString, propType);