How do i use Activator.CreateInstance with strings?

Question

In my reflection code i hit a problem with my generic section of code. Specifically when i use a string.

var oVal = (object)\"Test\";
var oType = oVal.GetType();         


        

Answer 1

String actually has no constructor that takes a string as input. There is a constructor that takes a char array so this should work:

var sz = Activator.CreateInstance ("".GetType (), "Test".ToCharArray ());