Cast to a type from the type name as a string

Question

I have an existing base type and I would like to cast it to a derived type base upon the name of the type as a string, so something like this:

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Answer 1

I'll repeat the advice that you probably don't need to do this, but because I have done this operation before:

Convert.ChangeType(ItemToCast, Type.GetType(stringNameOfType)))

Should work for you.