[Mono-winforms-list] Is this possible? (casting Q)

[Rafael Teixeira]

You need to use something like some of the Activator.CreateInstance
overloads, probably this one:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/d133hta4%28v=VS.100%29.aspx

But you need to deal with full-names "System.Windows.Forms.Label"
instead of just Label, but you'll have to make your helper classes
anyway to support your dynamic forms. Don't forget that you'll need to
parse and initialize also lots of properties for each control (a Label
without size,position and caption is pretty useless).

Have fun,

Rafael "Monoman" Teixeira
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On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 8:14 PM, Paul <paul at all-the-johnsons.co.uk> wrote:
> 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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