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 know this sounds crazy but, you can use Newtonsoft JSON.NET to convert your object into a serialized string and then cast from that string into any other type.

var jsontemp = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(anyObject);
var ConvertedObject = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(jsontemp, desiredType);