This class can be useful when you make conversion between types .The class supports conversion between .Net Type , SqlDbType and DbType .
using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Data;
namespace Devintelligence.Common.Data
{
/// <summary>
/// Convert a base data type to another base data type
/// </summary>
public sealed class TypeConvertor
{
private struct DbTypeMapEntry
{
public Type Type;
public DbType DbType;
public SqlDbType SqlDbType;
public DbTypeMapEntry( Type type, DbType dbType, SqlDbType sqlDbType )
{
this.Type = type;
this.DbType = dbType;
this.SqlDbType = sqlDbType;
}
};
private static ArrayList _DbTypeList = new ArrayList();
#region Constructors
static TypeConvertor()
{
DbTypeMapEntry dbTypeMapEntry
= new DbTypeMapEntry(typeof(bool), DbType.Boolean , SqlDbType.Bit);
_DbTypeList.Add( dbTypeMapEntry );
dbTypeMapEntry
= new DbTypeMapEntry(typeof(byte), DbType.Double , SqlDbType.TinyInt);
_DbTypeList.Add( dbTypeMapEntry );
dbTypeMapEntry
= new DbTypeMapEntry(typeof(byte[]), DbType.Binary , SqlDbType.Image);
_DbTypeList.Add( dbTypeMapEntry );
dbTypeMapEntry
= new DbTypeMapEntry(typeof(DateTime), DbType.DateTime , SqlDbType.DateTime);
_DbTypeList.Add( dbTypeMapEntry );
dbTypeMapEntry
= new DbTypeMapEntry(typeof(Decimal), DbType.Decimal , SqlDbType.Decimal);
_DbTypeList.Add( dbTypeMapEntry );
dbTypeMapEntry
= new DbTypeMapEntry(typeof(double), DbType.Double , SqlDbType.Float);
_DbTypeList.Add( dbTypeMapEntry );
dbTypeMapEntry
= new DbTypeMapEntry(typeof(Guid), DbType.Guid , SqlDbType.UniqueIdentifier);
_DbTypeList.Add( dbTypeMapEntry );
dbTypeMapEntry
= new DbTypeMapEntry(typeof(Int16), DbType.Int16 , SqlDbType.SmallInt);
_DbTypeList.Add( dbTypeMapEntry );
dbTypeMapEntry
= new DbTypeMapEntry(typeof(Int32), DbType.Int32 , SqlDbType.Int);
_DbTypeList.Add( dbTypeMapEntry );
dbTypeMapEntry
= new DbTypeMapEntry(typeof(Int64), DbType.Int64 , SqlDbType.BigInt);
_DbTypeList.Add( dbTypeMapEntry );
dbTypeMapEntry
= new DbTypeMapEntry(typeof(object), DbType.Object , SqlDbType.Variant);
_DbTypeList.Add( dbTypeMapEntry );
dbTypeMapEntry
= new DbTypeMapEntry(typeof(string), DbType.String , SqlDbType.VarChar);
_DbTypeList.Add( dbTypeMapEntry );
}
private TypeConvertor()
{
}
#endregion
#region Methods
/// <summary>
/// Convert db type to .Net data type
/// </summary>
/// <param name="dbType"></param>
/// <returns></returns>
public static Type ToNetType(DbType dbType)
{
DbTypeMapEntry entry = Find( dbType );
return entry.Type;
}
/// <summary>
/// Convert TSQL type to .Net data type
/// </summary>
/// <param name="sqlDbType"></param>
/// <returns></returns>
public static Type ToNetType(SqlDbType sqlDbType)
{
DbTypeMapEntry entry = Find( sqlDbType );
return entry.Type;
}
/// <summary>
/// Convert .Net type to Db type
/// </summary>
/// <param name="type"></param>
/// <returns></returns>
public static DbType ToDbType( Type type )
{
DbTypeMapEntry entry = Find( type );
return entry.DbType;
}
/// <summary>
/// Convert TSQL data type to DbType
/// </summary>
/// <param name="sqlDbType"></param>
/// <returns></returns>
public static DbType ToDbType( SqlDbType sqlDbType )
{
DbTypeMapEntry entry = Find( sqlDbType );
return entry.DbType;
}
/// <summary>
/// Convert .Net type to TSQL data type
/// </summary>
/// <param name="type"></param>
/// <returns></returns>
public static SqlDbType ToSqlDbType( Type type )
{
DbTypeMapEntry entry = Find( type );
return entry.SqlDbType;
}
/// <summary>
/// Convert DbType type to TSQL data type
/// </summary>
/// <param name="dbType"></param>
/// <returns></returns>
public static SqlDbType ToSqlDbType( DbType dbType )
{
DbTypeMapEntry entry = Find( dbType );
return entry.SqlDbType;
}
private static DbTypeMapEntry Find( Type type )
{
object retObj = null;
for( int i=0; i<_DbTypeList.Count; i++ )
{
DbTypeMapEntry entry = (DbTypeMapEntry)_DbTypeList[i];
if( entry.Type == type )
{
retObj = entry;
break;
}
}
if(retObj==null)
{
throw
new ApplicationException("Referenced an unsupported Type");
}
return (DbTypeMapEntry)retObj;
}
private static DbTypeMapEntry Find( DbType dbType )
{
object retObj = null;
for( int i=0; i<_DbTypeList.Count; i++ )
{
DbTypeMapEntry entry = (DbTypeMapEntry)_DbTypeList[i];
if( entry.DbType == dbType )
{
retObj = entry;
break;
}
}
if(retObj==null)
{
throw
new ApplicationException("Referenced an unsupported DbType");
}
return (DbTypeMapEntry)retObj;
}
private static DbTypeMapEntry Find( SqlDbType sqlDbType )
{
object retObj = null;
for( int i=0; i<_DbTypeList.Count; i++ )
{
DbTypeMapEntry entry = (DbTypeMapEntry)_DbTypeList[i];
if( entry.SqlDbType == sqlDbType )
{
retObj = entry;
break;
}
}
if(retObj==null)
{
throw
new ApplicationException("Referenced an unsupported SqlDbType");
}
return (DbTypeMapEntry)retObj;
}
#endregion
}
}
