CommonTypeConvertToString(Object) Method

public static string TypeConvertToString(
	Object value
)

Public Shared Function TypeConvertToString ( 
	value As Object
) As String

public:
static String^ TypeConvertToString(
	Object^ value
)

static member TypeConvertToString : 
        value : Object -> string 

GSF.Common.TypeConvertToString = function(value);

Parameters

value  Object

Value to convert to a String.

Return Value

If TypeConverter fails, the value's ToString() value will be returned. Returned value will never be null, if no value exists an empty string ("") will be returned.

You can use the ConvertToTypeT(String) string extension method or TypeConvertFromString(String, Type) to convert the string back to its original Type.

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