Question

I need to get an instance of a type whose name and assembly name I will have at runtime. I know in advance the type will have a parameterless constructor. What’s the easiest way to do this?

It’s waaaaaaay harder than I was hoping it would be.

Edit: I’m not if this is relevant, but the assembly will be referenced. I don’t need to load it from disk or something.

Answer 1

Type.GetType(string.Concat(typeName, ", ", assemblyName))

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/w3f99sx1.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.type.assemblyqualifiedname.aspx