Hi,

I'm kind of stuck with an serializing / deserializing problem using a
generic dictionary holding references to various generic types. It goes as
follows:

<code>

class MyBase : IXmlSerializable
{
// whatever
}

class MyGeneric<ValueType> : MyBase, IXmlSerializable
{
  MyGeneric(Valuetype tVal)
  {
    val = tVal;
  }
  ValueType val;
}

class Program
{
  dictionary<string, MyBase> m_Dic = new dictionary<string,MyBase>();

  void FillDictionary()
  {
     dictionary.Add("Key1", new MyGeneric<int>(10));
     dictionary.Add("Key1", new MyGeneric<string>("StringValue"));
     dictionary.Add("Key1", new MyGeneric<double>(3.1415));
  }
}
</code>

Ok, I hope you can see the idea behind it. It's mainly thought to hold a
variety of different types whithout specifying a parameter enum which selects
the appropiate value via a huge switch statement on lots of overloads to the
value Get/Set property.

While I'm able to serialize the dictionary without a problem to an XML file,
I'm stuck deserializing it.

The problem: how can I can generate a generic from a textinformation like

<MyGenericOfInt32> or MyApp.MyGeneric`1[System.String]  ?

The first classification is generated by the .Net serializer and the second
is generated from typeof(...) .

Any ideas are very appreciated.

Thanks,
          Florian