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

[Ivan Zlatev]

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 7:13 AM, Paul <paul at all-the-johnsons.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to create a winform object using something stored in a
> string?

Take a look at Type.GetType(string) and Activator.CreateInstance
methods. Depending on how you do things you might also have to call
Assembly.Load to load the System.Windows.Forms assembly in the
appdomain.

>
> 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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