> I'm sure I've seen this somewhere before, but can't find it
> now. If I have the name of a type as a string (ie
> "System.Text.StringBuilder," how do I use it to construct an
> instance of that type?
Let me be the first of many answering people ;)
->
1) load the assembly in an Assembly instance.
2) call CreateInstance(typenameString);
Example:
string entityAssemblyName = entityNode.Attributes["Assembly"].Value;
string entityTypeName = entityNode.Attributes["Type"].Value;
Assembly entityAssembly = Assembly.Load(entityAssemblyName);
EntityBase referencedEntity =
(EntityBase)entityAssembly.CreateInstance(entityTypeName);
OR you could use Activator.CreateInstance(), after creating a Type
object using Type.GetType(typenameString)
Frans.
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