Creating an object from from an ID (or name)

Question

I have an abstract class that a lot of child classes inherit:

  public abstract class CrawlerBase
    {
        public abstract void Process(string url);
            


        

Answer 1

you can't do this?

 {
   CrawlerBase crawler = null;

   switch (item.Type)
   {
        case "Trials":
            crawler = new Trials();   
            break;

        case "Coverage":
            crawler = new Coverage();
            break;
        default:
            break;
    }
   crawler.Process(item.URL);

}