Loading a control from it's type

[questions]

Can anyone offer any advice or point me in a direction of help.

I would like to be able to load a give webcontrol, say a TextBox from
it's type (which would be stored in either XML or SQL).

For example,

TextBox =
"System.Web.UI.WebControls.TextBox, System.Web, Version=1.0.5000.0,
Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a"

Thank you

Tony

[Karl Seguin]

dim type as Type =Type.GetType("YOUR STRING")
if not type is nothing then
dim txt as TextBox = ctype(Activator.CreateInstance(type), Type)
end if
Karl

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Can anyone offer any advice or point me in a direction of help.

I would like to be able to load a give webcontrol, say a TextBox from
it's type (which would be stored in either XML or SQL).

For example,

TextBox =
"System.Web.UI.WebControls.TextBox, System.Web, Version=1.0.5000.0,
Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a"

Thank you

Tony