Question

I am trying to write a generic convert function but I don’t know how do I do that. This is my skeleton:

public static T ConvertByGenerics<T>(string value)
        {
            //what do I write here?
            return default(T);
        }

Can anybody help me out? What do I write within the function to dynamically convert string into type T?

Answer 1

Try something like:

public T ConvertByGenerics<T>(string value, T defaultValue)
{
   if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(value))
   {
      return (T)Convert.ChangeType(value, typeof(T));
   }

   return defaultValue;
}