How to instantiate an object with a private constructor in C#?

Question

I definitely remember seeing somewhere an example of doing so using reflection or something. It was something that had to do with SqlParameterCollection which i

Answer 1

It will also help if your Type is private or internal:

 public static object CreatePrivateClassInstance(string typeName, object[] parameters)
    {
        Type type = AppDomain.CurrentDomain.GetAssemblies().
                 SelectMany(assembly => assembly.GetTypes()).FirstOrDefault(t => t.Name == typeName);
        return type.GetConstructors()[0].Invoke(parameters);
    }