public class GenericConverter
{
    public static T Parse<T>(string sourceValue) where T : IConvertible
    {
      return (T)Convert.ChangeType(sourceValue, typeof(T));
    }

    public static T Parse<T>(string sourceValue, IFormatProvider provider) where T : IConvertible
    {
      return (T)Convert.ChangeType(sourceValue, typeof(T), provider);
    }
}

Enables to convert types using generics. Simple and clean.

C# Generic Type Conversion

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