Re: Dynamically determine and cast type

Chris Tavares <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.windows.devel.dotnet.clr
Message-ID <001b01c8287b$9b7d7cc0$d2787640$@com>
Have you looked at the TypeConverter infrastructure?

In general, you need support from the type you're converting into;
TypeConverters are that support.

-Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Discussion of development on the .NET platform using any managed
language [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brady Kelly
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 2:13 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [DOTNET-CLR] Dynamically determine and cast type

I want to write a method that takes a Property object and a string as
parameters, and based on the type of the property, converts the string to
the correct type, with a null for empty strings, and assigns in to the
property.  I don't like the idea of using a switch, so how could I go about
this?


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