Dynamically create an object of

Question

I have a table in my database that I use to manage relationships across my application. it\'s pretty basic in it\'s nature - parentType,parentId, childType, childId... all a

Answer 1

If the type is known by the caller, there's a better, faster way than using Activator.CreateInstance: you can instead use a generic constraint on the method that specifies it has a default parameterless constructor.

Doing it this way is type-safe and doesn't require reflection.

T CreateType() where T : new()
{
   return new T();
}