What's the best way to instantiate a generic from its name?

Question

Assuming I have only the class name of a generic as a string in the form of \"MyCustomGenericCollection(of MyCustomObjectClass)\" and don\'t know the assembly it comes from,

Answer 1

The MSDN article How to: Examine and Instantiate Generic Types with Reflection describes how you can use Reflection to create an instance of a generic Type. Using that in conjunction with Marksus's sample should hopefully get you started.