{"id":128,"date":"2016-03-19T12:01:37","date_gmt":"2016-03-19T11:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solidt.eu\/blog\/?p=128"},"modified":"2016-03-19T12:01:37","modified_gmt":"2016-03-19T11:01:37","slug":"c-convert-values","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solidt.eu\/site\/c-convert-values\/","title":{"rendered":"C# Convert values"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/6884653\/how-to-make-a-generic-type-cast-function<\/p>\n<pre lang=\"c#\">\r\npublic static T ConvertValue<T>(T def, object input)\r\n{\r\n\tif (input != null)\r\n\t{\r\n\t\tvar converter = TypeDescriptor.GetConverter(typeof(T));\r\n\t\tif (converter != null)\r\n\t\t{\r\n\t\t\tstring convert = \"\";\r\n\t\t\tif (input is IConvertible)\r\n\t\t\t{\r\n\t\t\t\tconvert = ((IConvertible)input).ToString(System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);\r\n\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t\telse\r\n\t\t\t{\r\n\t\t\t\tconvert = input.ToString();\r\n\t\t\t}\r\n\r\n\t\t\treturn (T)converter.ConvertFromString(null, System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, convert);\r\n\t\t}\r\n\t}\r\n\treturn def;\r\n}\r\n\r\npublic static T ConvertValue<T,U>(U value) where U : IConvertible\r\n{\r\n    return (T)Convert.ChangeType(value, typeof(T));\r\n}\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/6884653\/how-to-make-a-generic-type-cast-function public static T ConvertValue(T def, object input) { if (input != null) { var converter = TypeDescriptor.GetConverter(typeof(T)); if (converter != null) { string convert = &#8220;&#8221;; if (input is IConvertible) { convert = ((IConvertible)input).ToString(System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture); } else { convert = input.ToString(); } return (T)converter.ConvertFromString(null, System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, convert); } } return def; } public static T [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dotnet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/solidt.eu\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/solidt.eu\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/solidt.eu\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solidt.eu\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solidt.eu\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/solidt.eu\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129,"href":"https:\/\/solidt.eu\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions\/129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/solidt.eu\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solidt.eu\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solidt.eu\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}