How to convert System.Type to Form ?

Question

Hi
How to convert System.Type to Form ?

i wrote this code :

FormsCollection forms = new FormsCollection();

foreach(Type t in types)

{

                if (t.BaseType == typeof(Form))

                {                    

                    Form frm = (Form)t;

                    forms.Add(frm);

                }

}

but, the following error message display :

Cannot convert type 'System.Type' to 'System.Windows.Forms.Form'

How to solve this problem ?
Thanks

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this is my Signature

Answer 1

Use Activator.CreatInstance to create an instance of the Type.

Answer 2

How can you typecast a Type object to Form?

Identify the objects whose BaseType is Form and typecast those to Form.

that means types should not be a collection of Type.
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Guna

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Hope It Works, Guna

Answer 3

You would do the following:

if (t.BaseType == typeof(Form))
{
    // Form frm = (Form)t;
    Form frm = (Form)Activator.CreateInstance(t);
    forms.Add(frm);
}

Activator.CreateInstance lets you create an instance of an object from it's type.  For details, see:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.activator.createinstance.aspx