array type at runtime

[thepersonof]

hi I want to be able to do the following: Type mytype = MethodInfoArray[i].GetParameters()[0].GetType(); mytype[] p = new mytype[5]; Is that possible? cheers

[S Senthil Kumar]

You are looking for Array.CreateInstance[^]. You can use it like

Type mytype = MethodInfoArray[i].GetParameters()[0].GetType();
Array a = Array.CreateInstance(myType, 5);

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[thepersonof]

Thank you ... that worked great ... but I should hae explained The bacis problem I have is this: Type requiredtype = getType(); Object[] datafrominputs = getData(); //I need to convert the array to the correct type (requiredtype) to pass as a parameter MethodInfoArray.Invoke(new Object(),new Object[]{datafrominputs}); Basically the method will take a single array as its parameter, but I need to be able to convert may Object array to the right type. What should I do? cheers -- modified at 7:30 Monday 29th May, 2006

[S Senthil Kumar]

Did you try Convert.ChangeType[^]?

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[thepersonof]

Yeah I have but I get: InvalidCastException: "Object must implement IConvertable" I was trying to convert from an Object[] to an int[]. cheers

[S Senthil Kumar]

Did you call Convert.ChangeType on the array itself or did you loop through the array and call it for each element in the array? I think the first approach won't work.

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[thepersonof]

y that's an idea... when looping through I would have to store the array in type determined at runtime (using the array class, I think). How could I then pass that as a parameter? thanks for all the help

[S Senthil Kumar]

Try this piece of code

static Array ConvertArray(object[] arr, Type type)
{
Array a = Array.CreateInstance(type, arr.Length);
for (int i = 0; i

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Senthil

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[thepersonof]

Thank you!!!