Create an object knowing only the class name?

Question

I have a set of classes, each one is a different strategy to do the same work.

namespace BigCorp.SuperApp
{
    public class BaseClass { }
    public class          


        

Answer 1

I'm going with the full type name in the application configuration. Below is a slightly more complete, but still trivial example

And the factory class that actually creates this

private static Assembly a = typeof(IFactoryObject).Assembly;
public static IFactoryObject CreateObject(String providerName)
{
    Type t = a.GetType(providerName)
    IFactoryObject o = Activator.CreateInstance(t) as IFactoryObject;
    return o;
}