vb.net class constructor question
 

Anybody know a way to instantiate a
class in vb.net given the class name as
a string?

For example:

objectIWant = "FoobarClass"
Dim fb as New magicGoesHere(objectIWant)

I've been scratching through MSDN all morning
without turning up anything.

Thanks in advance.

You want to create an object factory, then you can get back objects specified as an argument.

http://www.dofactory.com/Patterns/PatternAbstract.aspx

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