[Mono-winforms-list] Casting question (creating things on the fly)

Paul paul at all-the-johnsons.co.uk
Tue May 25 02:13:39 EDT 2010


Hi,

Is it possible to create a winform object using something stored in a
string?

For example

string m = "Label";
object n = (object)m;

n foo = new n();

I'd imagine it can be, but after 20 mins of googling around, can't see
anything that says I can...

TTFN

Paul
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