Dynamic Type Handling [Resolved]

[Carnifex]

Hi guys,

How do you do dynamic type switching? What I need to be able to do is change the type of an object based on a string.

For example

myObject = CType(passedObject, "System.String")

I've tried something along the lines of.

Dim myType As Type
Dim strType As String = "System.String"
Dim myObject As Object
 
myType = System.Type.GetType(strType)
 
myObject = CType(passedObject, myType)

Where strType could obviously be anything.

.Net is complaining that it cannot find the type of myType. So how do I accomplish doing type conversions when I don't know the type I want to convert to until runtime. (I know I could do a large select case, but I'd rather avoid this.)