Question

i need to create a List<T> type at runtime: i have a string that represents the type of a single item in the list (T), and an array of object.
My question is: how i can obtain the List<T>?

I hope I explained myself 🙂

thanks

Answer 1

First of all, are you sure that you want to do it this way? Smells like a design flaw.

Here is an example of how to do it:

var stringType = Type.GetType("System.String");
var listType = typeof (List<>);
var stringListType = listType.MakeGenericType(stringType);
var list = Activator.CreateInstance(stringListType) as IList;

list.Add("Foo");
list.Add("Bar");
list.Add("Baz");