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    copied!<p>I am working with someone else's code and trying to make some modifications. So what I'm needing to do is take the following:</p> <pre><code>RemoteFileDP remoteFile = new DPFactory().CreateRemoteFileDP(configData); </code></pre> <p>And change it so that remoteFile can equal what is in a string variable. To further explain let me give some more of the code:</p> <pre><code>ConfigDP configData = new ConfigDP(); </code></pre> <p>So the statement above is executed before the remoteFile statement and ConfigDP is has two classes above it (abstract Config and then its base: abstract ConfigBase). DP is also the child of two abstract classes above it (abstract RemoteFile and abstract RemoteFileBase).</p> <p>From my understanding remoteFile is the result of data extracted from a database query, stored into a list or a Hashtable (sorry just an intern so I'm working through this). </p> <p>The reason I need remoteFile to accept a string value is because there are MANY methods that utilize the information in remoteFile and I would like to avoid having to create a WHOLE BUNCH of overloaded methods that accept a string value instead of RemoteFileDP remoteFile.</p> <p>So if I can take a string value like: </p> <pre><code>string locationDirectory; </code></pre> <p>which is passed in from another method and then have something similar to the following:</p> <pre><code>RemoteFileDP remoteFile = locationDirectory; </code></pre> <p>then all other methods using remoteFile will not have to be overloaded or changed. </p> <p>Sorry for all the detail but this is my first time posting so I hope I provided enough information. I did look at <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4876683/c-convert-dynamic-string-to-existing-class">C# Convert dynamic string to existing Class</a> and <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/981330/c-instantiate-an-object-with-a-runtime-determined-type">C#: Instantiate an object with a runtime-determined type</a> and wrote the following code:</p> <pre><code>RemoteFilesDP remoteFile = (RemoteFileDP)Activator.CreateInstance(typeof(RemoteFileDP), locationDirectory); </code></pre> <p>However I keep getting a "MissingMethodException" error that the constructor for RemoteFileDP is not found but I do have the constructor as seen below:</p> <pre><code>public RemoteFileDP() { } //end of RemoteFilePlattsDP constructor </code></pre> <p>Thank you ahead of time for your assistance!</p>
 

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