string to object

[John Cotsell]

Basically I have a class called Dog and when using the objectdatasource I
can use a string parameter to pass into the selectmethod. so I pass in a
string = 'Dog' now once in the selectmethod I need to convert that string
into and object of type Dog...I hope this makes sense. Do anyone know how to
do this???? i guess I need a similar method to Eval in javascript.

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cheers John

 

[Guest]

Basically I have a class called Dog and when using the
objectdatasource I can use a string parameter to pass into the
selectmethod. so I pass in a string = 'Dog' now once in the
selectmethod I need to convert that string into and object of type
Dog...I hope this makes sense. Do anyone know how to do this????

System.Type.GetType can return objects based on Type.

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[KJ]

For equivalent to javascript's eval, check out the namespaces
System.Reflection.Emit (for creating assemblies on-the-fly) or perhaps
Microsoft.CSharp.Compiler (try the static Compile() method)