Question

The title may have said enough but I’ll explain it anyway:

My application gets a string like “bool” or “double” from a random data source. What I want using that string is to create an actual object with the type specified in that string.

So a string like “int” will give me a new object of type int.

Is this even possible? I’ve seen some examples that use a switch-case structure, but I’d rather see a function that is already implemented.

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

If you can form the string to the fully qualified type, you can do this kind of thing…

object num = Activator.CreateInstance(Type.GetType("System.Int32"));