You'll need to do a little more than just "Double", but I think what you're looking for is Activator.CreateInstance. It accepts a full type name, or a Type variable, and instantiates an object of that type.
You can convert a fully qualified type name to a type of Type by using the Type.GetType method. On Apr 17, 1:11 pm, jtaylor <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't think it's possible, but is there any way to use a variable as > a type in a Dim statement? > > For example: > > Dim Field1 as String = "Double" > Dim Field2 as Field1
