Determine if a reflected type can be cast to another reflected type?

(implicit and/or explicit) you can use something similar to this : to.GetType(). IsAssignableFrom(from.GetType()) The Type. IsAssignableFrom() method can be used for exactly your purpose.

This would also be considerably less verbose (even if only marginally more performant) than using TypeConverters.

(implicit and/or explicit) ... you can use something similar to this : to.GetType(). IsAssignableFrom(from.GetType()); The Type. IsAssignableFrom() method can be used for exactly your purpose.

This would also be considerably less verbose (even if only marginally more performant) than using TypeConverters.

According to MSDN, IsAssignableFrom only considers equality, inheritance, interfaces, and generics, not cast operators. Msdn.microsoft. Com/en-us/library/… – Bryan Matthews Jul 1 '10 at 19:27.

It would be better to look into TypeConverter's.

There are several implementations that will dynamically generate the required proxies. For example: deftflux.net/blog/page/Duck-Typing-Proje....

Public static bool HasConversionOperator( Type from, Type to ) { Func bodyFunction = body => Expression. Convert( body, to ); ParameterExpression inp = Expression. Parameter( from, "inp" ); try { // If this succeeds then we can cast 'from' type to 'to' type using implicit coercion Expression.

Lambda( bodyFunction( inp ), inp ).Compile(); return true; } catch( InvalidOperationException ) { return false; } } This should do the trick for implicit and explicit conversions (including numeric types, classes, etc. ).

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