Posted on Thursday, January 3, 2008

I've been working on some code tonight and needed to use the trusty struct.TryParse methods available in the core framework.  Unfortunately, the built in TryParse methods choke on nullable types.  After a frightfully short google search I ran across a blog entry from Steve Michelotti describing his approach to writing his own TryParse object for nullable types.  Its pretty sweet though it didn't meet a specific need that I had, specifically the ability to have the result parameter have its value set to null in cases where the string passed in is in fact null (or empty).