Can I load a .NET assembly at runtime and instantiate a type knowing only the name?

Question

Is it possible to instantiate an object at runtime if I only have the DLL name and the class name, without adding a reference to the assembly in the project? The class imple

Answer 1

Activator.CreateInstance ought to work.

IFace object = (IFace)Activator.CreateInstance( "AssemblyName",
                                                "TypeName" )
                               .Unwrap();

Note: The type name must be the fully qualified type.

Example:

var aray = (IList)Activator.CreateInstance("mscorlib","System.Collections.ArrayList").Unwrap();
aray.Add(10);

foreach (object obj in aray)
{
    Console.WriteLine(obj);
}