TypeConverters broken for primitive types?
.net, c#, typeconverter
Solution
According to the MSDN documentation for Int32Converter...
This converter can only convert a 32-bit signed integer object to and from a string.
I agree with @svick in the comments, though, I'm not understanding why you would need to deserialize a JSON string through Int32 to a Decimal in the first place.
Problem
I'm running into an issue with the `DecimalConverter` and `Int32Converter` classes, which seem to be returning inconsistent results, as demonstrated by the following simple console program: ``` using System; using System.ComponentModel; class App { static void Main() { var decConverter = TypeDescriptor.GetConverter(typeof(decimal)); Console.WriteLine("Converter: {0}", decConverter.GetType().FullName); Console.WriteLine("CanConvert from int to decimal: {0}", decConverter.CanConvertFrom(typeof(int))); Console.WriteLine("CanConvert to int from decimal: {0}", decConverter.CanConvertTo(typeof(int))); Console.WriteLine(); var intConverter = TypeDescriptor.GetConverter(typeof(int)); Console.WriteLine("Converter: {0}", intConverter.GetType().FullName); Console.WriteLine("CanConvert from int to decimal: {0}", intConverter.CanConvertTo(typeof(decimal))); Console.WriteLine("CanConvert to int from decimal: {0}", intConverter.CanConvertFrom(typeof(decimal))); } } ``` The output from this is as follows: ``` Converter: System.ComponentModel.DecimalConverter CanConvert from int to decimal: False CanConvert to int from decimal: True Converter: System.ComponentModel.Int32Converter CanConvert from int to decimal: False CanConvert to int from decimal: False ``` Unless I'm understanding TypeConverters incorrectly, the following should hold true: ``` TypeDescriptor.GetConverter(typeof(TypeA)).CanConvertFrom(typeof(TypeB)) ``` should give the same result as ``` TypeDescriptor.GetConverter(typeof(TypeB)).CanConvertTo(typeof(TypeA)) ``` At least in the case of `System.Int32` and `System.Decimal`, they do not. My question is this: Does anybody know if this is by design? Or are the TypeConverters for native types in C# actually broken?