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Resolve CLR Type from DataContract.Namespace?

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Check out Activator.CreateInstance(). Here's an example of its usage:

dim obj as Object = Activator.CreateInstance("ArgumentException")

In your case you can parse the type name out of the namespace and pass it as a parameter to CreateInstance().

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.activator.createinstance.aspx

Keith 2009-04-22 14:27:28

I'm familiar with this method/class. However, I'm wanting a way of passing in the provided URI as a whole without any parsing involved. There is something somewhere in the framework that allows this. I know it. :)

2009-04-22 15:35:17

I'm not aware of any built in framework methods to do this. But you can accomplish it by combining the above method with reflection. According to this - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms731045.aspx - all CLR types have the same namespace format. Any other namespace can be assumed to belong to your custom data contracts.But if you find a framework solution, please let me know!

Keith 2009-04-23 14:36:33

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