Universal Type Converter In Visual Studio for Intermediate Developer

This article is about the different possibilities of type conversion provided by the .NET Framework. At the end, it offers a combination of all these methods (and more) within the UniversalTypeConverter which converts nearly every type to another type.

I came across this during the requirement of mapping values, coming from a database, to some objects. Of course, a problem which could be done by an O/R mapper. But this time, the query against the database - and the objects to map the result to - were only known at runtime. It was a kind of reporting tool. Not knowing the exact types, I decided to search for a generic conversion solution. But none of those provided a ready-steady-method like convert x to y for all desired types. So the idea of the UniversalTypeConverter was born.

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