Hi All,

Using Win2k
When I return a db column via a datareader to my app I'll see that rdr("ControlType") contains "Label" or "Textbox", etc. I'd like to use this string to as a datatype for a variable. I have tried...

Dim ct As Control = CType(TypeDescriptor.GetConverter(GetType(Control)).ConvertFromString(rdrFormBuild("controltype").To String), Control)

but that returns Nothing. I know that for a color "red" you can use the FromName method to return a valid color object so there must be something like this for other objects??? Any ideas?

I'll also post on ASP.NET

Thanks,
David X