C# generic string parse to any object

Question

I am storing object values in strings e.g.,

string[] values = new string[] { \"213.4\", \"10\", \"hello\", \"MyValue\"};

is there any way to ge

Answer 1

I know this doesn't answer your question, but have you looked at Dapper micro ORM?
It's über-simple (compared to LINQ to SQL or, for that reason, Entity Framework) and does what you want.

Consider this:

public class Dog
{
    public int? Age { get; set; }
    public Guid Id { get; set; }
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public float? Weight { get; set; }    
}            

var guid = Guid.NewGuid();
var dog = connection.Query("select * from Dogs where Id = @Id",
    new { Id = 42 }
).First();

Dapper itself is packaged in a single file and, reportedly, is used by StackOverflow team (apart from Linq to SQL).