Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Using reflection internally to create an instance based on a string name

[Bill Bassler]

This does it:

public static ReportFactoryBase GetObject(string type)
{
  System.Reflection.Assembly reportImplementationAssembly =
System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly();

  foreach (Type t in reportImplementationAssembly.GetTypes())
  {
 if (type == t.Name)
 {
  return (ReportFactoryBase) Activator.CreateInstance(t);
 }
  }

  throw new ApplicationException();
}

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