Create object instance without invoking constructor?

Question

In C#, is there a way to instantiate an instance of a class without invoking its constructor?

Assume the class is public and is defined in a 3rd par

Answer 1

I noticed the "deadness" of the subject but just for clarification on further readers and to put a final answer that maybe wasn't possible when the question was posted. Here it goes.

It seems that you can instantiate a class without using it's constructors by assigning values to its properties. Here is the address where is the how-to in MSDN for this type of instantiation http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb397680.aspx.

It seems like this is a technique that's not well known because I encountered it in a article in CodeProject and then googled it and didn't find anything about it and later on visited the MSDN Homepage and there was a post that linked me to that exact subject. So it seems that it's an unknown subject rather than a new one because the date on the CodeProject post dates May 2008.

Hope this helps someone else that google's this and comes across with this question.