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Obtaining a Type Reference Using System.Type.GetType()

To obtain type information in a more flexible manner, you may call the static GetType() member of

the System.Type class and specify the fully qualified string name of the type you are interested in

examining. Using this approach, you do 

not need to have compile-time knowledge of the type you

are extracting metadata from, given that Type.GetType() takes an instance of the omnipresent

System.String.

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Note

When I say you do not need compile-time knowledge when calling 

Type.GetType()

, I am referring to

the fact that this method can take any string value whatsoever (rather than a strongly typed variable). Of course,

you would still need to know the name of the type in a stringified format!

The Type.GetType() method has been overloaded to allow you to specify two Boolean parame-

ters, one of which controls whether an exception should be thrown if the type cannot be found, and

the other of which establishes the case sensitivity of the string. To illustrate, ponder the following: