Create anonymous object by Reflection in C#

Question

Is there any way to create C# 3.0 anonymous object via Reflection at runtime in .NET 3.5? I'd like to support them in my serialization scheme, so I need a way to manipulate them programmatically.

edited later to clarify the use case

An extra constraint is that I will be running all of it inside a Silverlight app, so extra runtimes are not an option, and not sure how generating code on the fly will work.

Answer 1

Here is another way, seems more direct.

object anon = Activator.CreateInstance(existingObject.GetType());

Answer 2

Yes, there is. From memory:

public static T create<T>(T t)
{
    return Activator.CreateInstance<T>();
}

object anon = create(existingAnonymousType);