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));

After converting the VB.NET sample, when run it errors out on the line 9 with Value cannot be null.
Parameter name: type. The problem I believe is the the "type" of the variable LcClassName is "string". The value of LcClassName which is "ListReportControl" is a type of "control". I know in FoxPro you could specify the field as &LcClassName so that the code would use the value rather than the actual field name.

1. {
2.     string LcClassName = "ListReportControl";
3.     object loObject;
4.     Type loType;
5.     //-- Get the type
6.     loType = Type.GetType(LcClassName);
7.    
8.     //-- Create the object
9.     loObject = Activator.CreateInstance(loType);
10. }