I have an application where...

1)  I know the class name of the object I want to instantiate.
2)  The class uses the class factory approach to create objects.
3)  The factory method is a static member of the class.  The name of this
method
is always "New" plus the class name.

So I can use reflection to create my object (in C#)...  

// create the fully qualified name of the class
// Note dfla.AttributeType.BpaType is a string
string qualTypeName = "DescriptorLib." + dfla.AttributeType.BpaType;
// get the Type
Type valType = Type.GetType(qualTypeName);
// create the static method name to call... "New" plus the class name
string methodName = "New" + dfla.AttributeType.BpaType;
// invoke the static method - it takes no parms and returns a "valType" object
object val = valType.InvokeMember                                            
                        (methodName,BindingFlags.InvokeMethod,null,null, new
object[] {});
           
All this works, but what I want is a "valType" object.  How do I cast object
"val" to "valType"?

// d.att is a "valType" object attribute
d.att = val as valType;  //  Doesn't work.  Compiler doesn't recognize valType
d.att = (valType)val;  // Doesn't work.  Compiler doesn't recognize valType

Any ideas anyone?

Thanks.

BBM