Question

I have a snippet of code in my application (which references System.Windows.Forms) which attempts to resolve type information for a Form class like so:

Type tForm = Type.GetType("System.Windows.Forms.Form");
dynamic instance = Activator.CreateInstance(tForm);

but Activator.CreateInstance fails because tForm is null.

How do I solve this?

EDIT: Types MUST be resolvable at runtime!

Answer 1

You need to use assembly-qualified name of the type

Type tForm = Type.GetType("System.Windows.Forms.Form, System.Windows.Forms, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089");