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

In this snippet I want to show how to create and use a dynamically created list. For example, I'm adding to the dynamic list here.

void AddValue(object targetList, T valueToAdd)
{
    var addMethod = targetList.GetType().GetMethod("Add");
    addMethod.Invoke(targetList, new[] { valueToAdd } as object[]);
}

var listType = typeof(List<>).MakeGenericType(new[] { dynamicType }); // dynamicType is the type you want
var list = Activator.CreateInstance(listType);

AddValue(list, 5);

Similarly you can invoke any other method on the list.