Question

I have two assemblies / projects with DLL as output: Models and Logic

Inside the Logic DLL I want to create an object of a specific model via reflection (The project is referenced and I am able to manually create an instance)

MyNameSpace.Models.Foo foo = new MyNameSpace.Models.Foo(); // works
Type type = Type.GetType("MyNameSpace.Models.Foo"); // returns null

How can I create an object of MyNameSpace.Models.Foo? Apparently the type does not resolve. How can I fix this?

Answer 1

You could look at using Activator.CreateInstance. For example:

Assembly assembly = Assembly.LoadFrom("Foo.dll");

Type type = assembly.GetType("TheNamspace.TheType");

object instanceOfMyType = Activator.CreateInstance(type);