How to Cast dynamically?

[FruitBatInShades]

I'm working on a form editor a.k.a like in Visual Studio and sharpdevelop. I save the forms out as xml mainly using to the .ToString methods and then try to convert them back on load. I thought this would be the way to do it:- Dim PInfo As PropertyInfo = ty.GetProperty(Nde.Name) If Not PInfo Is Nothing Then Dim t As Type = PInfo.GetType() PInfo.SetValue(ctrl, (CType(Nde.Value, PInfo.GetType())), Nothing) End If but CType and DirectCast do not accept PInfo.GetType(). They demand a hand coded type e.g. CType(Value, Integer). Does anybody know of a way to do this? I look for the TagName via reflection :- Dim PInfo As PropertyInfo = ty.GetProperty(Nde.Name) and it returns fine, so it's found the property. But how do I then convert the value to the correct Type so I can set the property value? Demo XML:

<VISIBLE>True</VISIBLE>
<Text>Caption :</Text>
<TextAlign>1</TextAlign>