How to instantiate a type dynamically using reflection?

Question

I need to instatiate a C# type dynamically, using reflection. Here is my scenario: I am writing a base class, which will need to instantiate a certain object as a part of its in

Answer 1

You're looking for Activator.CreateInstance

object instance = Activator.CreateInstance(myType);

There are are various overloads of this method that can take constructor arguments or other information to find the type (such as names in string form)

• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.activator.createinstance.aspx