I'm trying to take an existing type (in the form of an object) and derive a
"type" from it that can be passed to generic method.
You mean like this?
// from an Type...
public IList MakeList(Type instanceType)
{
Type genericType = typeof(List<>);
Type closedType = genericType.MakeGenericType(instanceType);
return Activator.CreateInstance(closedType,
BindingFlags.CreateInstance | BindingFlags.NonPublic |
BindingFlags.Instance, null, null, null, null);
}
// from an instance of a Type...
public IList MakeList(object thing)
{
Type instanceType = thing.GetType();
return MakeList(instanceType);
}
// from a Type name
public IList MakeList(string typeName)
{
Type instanceType = Type.GetType(typeName, false, true);
return MakeList(instanceType);
}
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