There's not a lot of point being generic if end up doing switch if/switch statements. ie Why don't you just have a specialized class for each numeric type? Ie IntFooClass, DoubleFooClass, etc.
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Geoff Appleby Sent: Friday, June 03, 2011 8:59 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Generic class question Surely there's very few types that a) you're using, that b) offer that Parse method. Could you save the reflection call and simply do something like if (typeof(T) is decimal) { decimal.Parse(...); } elseif (typeof(T) is int) { int.Parse(...); } ? On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Greg Keogh <g...@mira.net<mailto:g...@mira.net>> wrote: The Convert class will help: value = (T)Convert.ChangeType(rawValue, typeof(T)) Fascinating. I've not noticed that method before. The MSDN doco says that ChangeType expects an IConvertible, which int, double, long, etc do. It turns out I couldn't use a TypeConverter because I'm in Silverlight. I can't use ChangeType in my case either, but I will stick that in my head for future use. I have to parse strings that are coming in a decimal number strings and also as 0xnnnnn hex number strings. Sadly I had to use reflection to get the Parse method and invoke it on the string after I have tweaked it. Greg -- Geoff Appleby Blog: http://www.crankygoblin.com/geoff Twitter: http://twitter.com/g_appleby Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/geoff.appleby
