Conversion between Nullable types

Question

Is there a converter in .NET 4.0 that supports conversions between nullable types to shorten instructions like:

bool? nullableBool = GetSomething();
byte? nb         


        

Answer 1

Not that I am aware of.
You could just write a helper method like this:

public Nullable NullableConvert(
          Nullable source, Func converter)
    where TTarget: struct
    where TSource: struct
{
    return source.HasValue ? 
               (Nullable)converter(source.Value) : 
               null;
}

Call it like this:

byte? nbyte = NullableConvert(nullableBool, Convert.ToByte);