Using Generics to return a literal string or from Dictionary

Question

I think I outsmarted myself this time. Feel free to edit the title also I could not think of a good one.

I am reading from a file and then in that file will be a string

Answer 1

Change:

if (typeof(T) is string)

to:

if (typeof(T) == typeof(String))

The is operator is only valid on class instances. T is not actually an instance it is a type, therefor using is will not compile in your code because you need to compare 2 types. You can read more about it on msdn here.