Question

how can I test if a dynamic variable is a double for example?

I need to do something like:

void someMethod(dynamic var1)
{
  if(var1.isDouble)
  {...
  }else if(var1 is int)
  // do something else....


}

Answer 1

That approach is fine (i.e. var1 is double), though that’s usually not what dynamic is meant to accomplish. More often, you should dynamic when you do know what the type will be, but it’s difficult or impossible to show that at compile-time (e.g. a COM interop scenario, a ViewBag in MVC, etc.) You could just use object if you want to pass a variable of unknown type. Otherwise, the run-time will do the type analysis for you during execution, which can be a big performance hit if that’s not what you need.

In general, there could be scenarios where you’d want to use dynamic as a catch-all container, but this doesn’t appear to be one of them. In this case, why not have a number of method overloads that each take the desired type:

void someMethod(double d) { ... }
void someMethod(int i) { ... }