Dynamic creation of objects of a given type with a given value

[aitor]

Let´s suppose I have an string representation of a type (i.e, "System.Int32") and an string representation of a value (i.e, "33").

What I wanna do is to create an object of that type with that value, without using an obvious function like this:

Private Function CreateObject(ByVal strType As String, ByVal strValue As String) As Object

Select Case strType

Case "System.Boolean"
Return CBool(strValue)
Case "System.Byte"
Return CByte(strValue)
Case "System.Char"
Return CChar(strValue)
Case "System.DateTime"
Return CDate(strValue)
Case "System.Double"
Return CDbl(strValue)
Case "System.Decimal"
Return CDec(strValue)
Case "System.Int32"
Return CInt(strValue)
Case "System.Int64"
Return CLng(strValue)
Case "System.Int16"
Return CShort(strValue)
Case "System.Single"
Return CSng(strValue)
Case "System.String"
Return CStr(strValue)
Case Else
Return CObj(strValue)
End Select

End Function

Is there any native .NET way to do it??. I have tried with ctype, but it doesn´t allow to specify a type given in string format, neither can I find a way using Reflection.

Thanks,

Aitor.