Hi,
I have a fairly simeple question. What are the differences between
Assembly.CreateInstance and System.Activator.CreateInstance? I had read that
one maps to the other, however when I use Assembly.CreateInstance to create
an object that implements an interface it cannot cast to the appropriate
interface type before returning. e.g.
ISubmit lo_MessagingObject=null;
string
l_MessagingType=ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings. Get("messagingtype");
Assembly assembly = Assembly.LoadFrom
(ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings.Get("assemblylo cationmessaging"));
// Get all Types available in the assembly in an array
Type[] typeArray = assembly.GetTypes ();
// Walk through each Type and list their Information
foreach (Type type in typeArray)
{
if (type.FullName.CompareTo(l_MessagingType)==0)
{
lo_MessagingObject = (ISubmit)assembly.CreateInstance(l_MessagingType);
}
}
l_MessagingType is a class that implements the ISubmitI Interface.
Fails saying the type is an invalid cast, however the same object type below
casts without any problem. Is this the correct behaviour??
System.Type oType = System.Type.GetType(l_MessagingType);
//create an instance and type cast it to our interface
lo_MessagingObject = (ISubmit)System.Activator.CreateInstance(oType);
thanks
