I have a reference in my project to a Sharpshooter Report. When I instantiate it, using the name of the the control "ListReportControl" in the second line below works, but I need to change that line to be able to specify a string variable that has the value of the report control. How would the line need to be changed to allow this?

string strReportName = "ListReportControl";

Control newSample = (Control)Activator.CreateInstance(typeof(ListReportControl));

you just need to call Gettype with the classname and pass that to createinstance.

Dim loObject As Object
Dim loType As Type
  '-- Get the type
 loType = Type.GetType(LcClassName)

 '-- Create the object
 loObject = Activator.CreateInstance(loType)

Paul

Yup...good answer, Paul.