How to identify a Nullable<T>
Before the recent Nullable<T> changes, some of you may have used INullableValue to find a Nullable<T>. We could debate the issues with writing code that uses a "marker" interface but here I want to just provide a solution for deciding if a type is Nullable<T>.
Now that the INullableValue interface is gone from Nullable<T>, I have got questions about how to identify a Nullable<T> type. Here is a way to do it:
if
(type.IsGenericType && type.GetGenericTypeDefinition() == typeof(Nullable<>)) {…}
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About Dinesh.Kulkarni
I am a program manager in the Visual C# Product Unit of Microsoft. I am currently working on the LINQ project with specific responsibility for DLinq. Previously, I have been in a PM in SQL Server working on ObjectSpaces and DataSet.
In pre-MS life, I have worked for companies ranging from startup to IBM on a wide range of software projects.
Before I started working, I did M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. (CSE) from the University of Notre Dame and B.Tech. E.E. from IIT Bombay, India.
