Creating an Instance of a Form From a String

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Bill Cunnien	Bill Cunnien posted 15 Years Ago HOT Topic Details Share Topic
Group: Forum Members Posts: 785, Visits: 3.6K	This is turning out to be a little more difficult than I expected. I used the forum entry to guide me but I have run into a problem with the following code: ((Form)Activator.CreateInstance(mFormName, "Form")).Show(); The error that I get when I build the project is: Cannot convert type 'System.Runtime.Remoting.ObjectHandle' to 'System.Windows.Forms.Form' I have tried simply passing the string of the form ("MyNamespace.MyForm") to CreateInstance, but that does not work, either. Any direction that you can provide would be helpful. Bill
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Bill Cunnien - 15 Years Ago

By the way, if I change the code to this:
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Bill Cunnien - 15 Years Ago

Hi Bill,
I hard code the full form name on a property of the menu...

Edhy Rijo - 15 Years Ago

If you are going to create it off of a string, you have to pass the...

Trent L. Taylor - 15 Years Ago

Yup...I did that and the response was the same string that I used in...

Bill Cunnien - 15 Years Ago

You may need to also include the assembly name and version as well if...

Trent L. Taylor - 15 Years Ago

The code I was using yesterday was the following:
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Bill Cunnien - 15 Years Ago

Yup...one thing you can try also is to leave out the version in that...

Trent L. Taylor - 15 Years Ago

[quote]...one thing you can try also is to leave out the version in...

Bill Cunnien - 15 Years Ago

Hi Bill,
Glad to be able to help. I also borrowed some idea from...

Edhy Rijo - 15 Years Ago

I place the AssemblyQualifiedName into the tag of the NavBarItem, then...

Bill Cunnien - 15 Years Ago

[quote][b]Bill Cunnien (04/15/2009)[/b][hr]Edhy, I do need to review...

Edhy Rijo - 15 Years Ago

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