Dynamic instance creation

[Enrico Foschi]

GoodMorning,
I'm an italian developer, so, first of all, excuse me for my poor and
incorrect english.

I am writing here hoping to find some advice for a procedure that a
like to create: I would like to create a software where all services
available (database view, database backup, etc...) are listes in an
xml file, ex:

<list>
<service>
<name>Database view</name>
<alias>dbView</alias>
</service>
<service>
<name>Database backup</name>
<alias>dbBackup</alias>
</service>
</list>

Service alias is the name of C# class that represent the service. When
i choose the first service in xml, i have to create an istance of the
class dbView, but i don't know why.

Do you maybe know how to create istance of a class, using the
classname as a string? Something as type("dbView") dbIstnace =
createIstance("dbView")? Is it possible? Thank you very much

Enrico

[Michael Nemtsev]

You need to do smth like this

Type type = listOfObjects[i].GetType(); // <type of your
control>
object obj = Activator.CreateInstance(type);

But in your case you need to keep in XML the real type of your control, to
call .GetType() for control and save it in your <alias> element.

GoodMorning,
I'm an italian developer, so, first of all, excuse me for my poor and
incorrect english.

I am writing here hoping to find some advice for a procedure that a
like to create: I would like to create a software where all services
available (database view, database backup, etc...) are listes in an
xml file, ex:

<list>
<service>
<name>Database view</name>
<alias>dbView</alias>
</service>
<service>
<name>Database backup</name>
<alias>dbBackup</alias>
</service>
</list>

Service alias is the name of C# class that represent the service. When
i choose the first service in xml, i have to create an istance of the
class dbView, but i don't know why.

Do you maybe know how to create istance of a class, using the
classname as a string? Something as type("dbView") dbIstnace =
createIstance("dbView")? Is it possible? Thank you very much

--
WBR,
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