Creating an instance of type using string litteral

[Venkatraman]

Hey, I have read this before it is possible to create an instance of a type by specifying their string literal equivalent. for example if i need to create an instance of Employee class generally i will say Employee objEmployee = new Employee(); my question is i just know that the class which i need to instantiate is "Employee" how will i instantiate using the string "Employee" hope i did not made the simple ques more complex. Cheers, Venkatraman Kalyanam Chennai - India "Being Excellent is not a skill, it is an attitude" Reality is an illusion caused by caffeine deficiency(one Microsoft Research scholor)

[Rocky Moore]

Check out AppDomain.CreateInstance and AppDomain.CreateInstanceFrom Rocky Moore <><

[shaunAustin]

You can instantiate a class using a "partial" name... i.e. the type name as a string literal, one way is... string path = "MyApp.MyAssembly"; // assembly name string class = "MyClass"; // class in the assembly object MyObj = Assembly.Load(path).CreateInstance(class); This is most useful when your class implements a known interface but you want to dynamically load the implementation because you can do the following. IFooBar fooBar = Assembly.Load(path).CreateInstance(class) as IFooBar This stuff is my favourite thing about .net... :-D :cool: HTH Shaun :-D ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Shaun Austin: .NET Specialist. Spreading the word of .NET to the world... well the UK... well my tiny corner of it!! :-D

[Kannan Kalyanaraman]

Venkat, Have a look at CreateInstance and CreateInstanceAndUnwrap method, I think you can also do this using other reflection techniques. Cheers, Kannan

[Venkatraman]

thanks for your info Cheers, Venkatraman Kalyanam Chennai - India "Being Excellent is not a skill, it is an attitude" Reality is an illusion caused by caffeine deficiency(one Microsoft Research scholor)

[Venkatraman]

thanks for your info Cheers, Venkatraman Kalyanam Chennai - India "Being Excellent is not a skill, it is an attitude" Reality is an illusion caused by caffeine deficiency(one Microsoft Research scholor)

[CBoland]

You could also use Activator.CreateInstance. This is much simpler that using AppDomain.CreateInstance, especially if the "Employee" class is in the same assembly. It also returns an Object instance instead of an ObjectHandle.