Custom Xml Serialization of Unknown Type

Question

I\'m attempting to deserialize a custom class via the XmlSerializer and having a few problems, in the fact that I don\'t know the type that I\'m going to be deserializing (i

Answer 1

To create an instance from a string, use one of the overloads of Activator.CreateInstance. To just get a type with that name, use Type.GetType.