Instantiate a class from its textual name

Question

Don\'t ask me why but I need to do the following:

string ClassName = \"SomeClassName\";  
object o = MagicallyCreateInstance(\"SomeClassName\");

Answer 1

Activator.CreateInstance(Type.GetType("SomeNamespace.SomeClassName"));

or

Activator.CreateInstance(null, "SomeNamespace.SomeClassName").Unwrap();

There are also overloads where you can specify constructor arguments.