Execute code at runtime

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Does VB.net allow for a way of executing a string of code at runtime?

Basically i'm trying to grab a form name from a database and display the form.

Sure!

You can do this using Reflection.
It does not compile a thing, just retrieve informations about objects and methods into assemblies and let you call them at runtime.

Take a look to this example:

Assembly a = Assembly.Load(strMyAssemblyFile);
Type     oType = a.GetType(strCompleteNamespaceAndClassName);
object   oMyObj = Activator.CreateInstance(oType);
 
MethodInfo oMethod = oType.GetMethod(strMethodName);
oMethod.Invoke(oMyObj, new object[] {MyParam});

Bye!