Pass An Instantiated System.Type as a Type Parameter for a Generic Class

Question

The title is kind of obscure. What I want to know is if this is possible:

string typeName = ;
Type myType = Type.GetType(         


        

Answer 1

My requirements were slightly different, but will hopefully help someone. I needed to read type from a config and instantiate the generic type dynamically.

namespace GenericTest
{
    public class Item
    {
    }
}

namespace GenericTest
{
    public class GenericClass
    {
    }
}

Finally, here is how you call it. Define the type with a backtick.

var t = Type.GetType("GenericTest.GenericClass`1[[GenericTest.Item, GenericTest]], GenericTest");
var a = Activator.CreateInstance(t);