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02.01.07
A Universal Data Type Checker
 By Mads Kristensen
In many different scenarios we need to check if a string can be converted into an integer e.g.
This could be when we work with query strings and need to check if they match a certain data type.
In VB.NET you can use the IsNumeric and IsDate functions, but that's about it.
You are left to your own data type checking logic the rest of the
time.
It would be cool if we could have a method that could check all data types that is represented by strings such as integers, guids, booleans etc.
Here is a method that does just that.
It can check all the string based types and also enums.
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About the Author:
Mads Kristensen currently works as a Senior Developer at Traceworks located
in Copenhagen, Denmark. Mads graduated from Copenhagen Technical Academy with a multimedia degree in
2003, but has been a professional developer since 2000. His main focus is on ASP.NET but is responsible for Winforms, Windows- and
web services in his daily work as well. A true .NET developer with great passion for the simple solution.
http://www.madskristensen.dk/
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