Type instantiation from an assembly in C#

Question

Is it possible to do something like this?

1. Create a class and put it in an assembly, e.g

   namespace some
   {
       public class foo{
           ..etc
   }
   

2. Load it into the current appdomain

   Assembly.LoadFrom("some.foo.dll");
   

3. Get the type out

   Type t = Type.GetType("some.foo");
   

Basically is there anyway to get the actual type into t?

Answer 1

I'm not sure if I understand the question. I think you want to instantiate the type.

This calls the public default constructor:

// specify the full name and assembly name, to make sure that you get the some.foo
// from the assembly in question.
Type t = Type.GetType("some.foo, some.foo");
object instance = Activator.CreateInstance(t);

Look at the overloads to call other constructors.