Faster version of Convert.ChangeType

Question

In an application that I have, I am doing quite frequent calls to Convert.ChangeType in order to convert a value to a dynamically loaded type.

However

Answer 1

I haven't tested if faster, but this is an alternative way for dynamic casting. This is alsp more universal, since Convert.ChangeType() has some limitations, as you have seen (Guids, Nullable types)

value = (T)TypeDescriptor.GetConverter(typeof(T)).ConvertFromInvariantString(str);