I have a struct called CaseInsensitiveString which is just a wrapper that allows my program to work with strings without caring about their case. When it is persisted to a DB, it is no different from a regular string, though, so I want to be able to use it with a System.Data.SqlClient.SqlParameter like this:
var myString = new CaseInsensitiveString("foo");
var param = new SqlParameter("@MyValue", myString);
Of course I can't do that because SqlParameter doesn't know about my CaseInsensitiveString. I get a System.ArgumentException when I try to use it with a SqlDataAdapter:
No mapping exists from object type ConsoleApplication1.CaseInsensitiveString to a known managed provider native type.
Is there a way to make my own mapping so that I can convert CaseInsensitiveString to a System.String? I could imagine there being an interface that I'd have to implement on CaseInsensitiveString. MSDN does not provide any information on this.
I guess, to put it more succinctly, my question is really: how can I coerce a data type into one that is supported by System.Data.SqlClient.SqlParameter.