question about casting a string to button

[abstar]

hi guys, is there anyway i can cast a string like "System.UI.Button" to a Button? thanks

[Office Lineman]

You can create a type from a string with Type.GetType(typeName)[^], if that's what you mean. Otherwise, since you can't exactly cast a type specifier into an instance, a little more info would be useful. -- I've killed again, haven't I?

[Stefan Troschuetz]

Activator.CreateInstance[^]

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