How can you cast to a type using the type name as a string?

Question

Ok, I\'ve thumped on this idea all day now, and I have reached the part where I admit I just flat out don\'t know. It\'s possible that what I\'m doing is just stupid and the

Answer 1

According to what you have, FormWithWorker must be (at least) as base class of the type you are instantiating, so you can do this:

FormWithWorker formToLoad = (FormWithWorker)fi.GetValue(this);
if (formToLoad == null)
{
    formToLoad = (FormWithWorker)System.Activator.CreateInstance("MyAssemblyName", formType);
}