Generic Class & Type.GetType()

Question

Bit of a puzzler, I have a generic class

public abstract class MyClass : UserControl
{

}

and I have got a type like this

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Answer 1

Something like this:

Type typeArgument = Type.GetType("Type From DB as String", true, true);
Type template = typeof(MyClass<>);
Type genericType = template.MakeGenericType(typeArgument);
object instance = Activator.CreateInstance(genericType);

Now you won't be able to use that as a MyClass in terms of calling methods on it, because you don't know the T... but you could define a non-generic base class or interface with some methods in which don't require T, and cast to that. Or you could call the methods on it via reflection.