Pass An Instantiated System.Type as a Type Parameter for a Generic Class

Question

The title is kind of obscure. What I want to know is if this is possible:

string typeName = ;
Type myType = Type.GetType(         


        

Answer 1

If you know what types will be passed you can do this without reflection. A switch statement would work. Obviously, this would only work in a limited number of cases, but it'll be much faster than reflection.

public class Type1 { }

public class Type2 { }

public class Generic { }

public class Program
{
    public static void Main()
    {
        var typeName = nameof(Type1);

        switch (typeName)
        {
            case nameof(Type1):
                var type1 = new Generic();
                // do something
                break;
            case nameof(Type2):
                var type2 = new Generic();
                // do something
                break;
        }
    }
}