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How to determine if an object is a value type

I could use Type.IsValueType to figure this out straightforwardly in .net 4.5, but when I build generic apps using a portable library it doesn't have an equivalent method to determine if a type is a value or not.

Is there any more trick to find this?

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One workaround found:



TypeOf (ValueType) .IsAssignableFrom (type)

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Try it type.GetTypeInfo().IsValueType

. Also make sure you have a using statement for System.Reflection so an extension method is available GetTypeInfo()

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