casting at runtime

I am trying to cast a user control at run time. Here are some code // load usercontrol, string userControlFileName="test.ascx"; Control rptCtl= LoadControl(userControlFileName); //get the type of the user control System.Type userControlType = rptCtl.GetType() // casting ((userControlType) rptCtl).setInfo(); The last line gave me compile error as follows "the type or namespace userControlType could not be found"; userControlFileName is determined at runtime, so the type of the user control has to be determined at runtime. I defined a method setInfo() in the user Control to define some class variables, in order to invoke this method, I have to cast the user control to its specific type. I have searched internet crazy and all I can find is an example that does the same thing as I did. Could anybody please help me out? Susan

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tsuman_in23y ago
I'm guessinng that this might be a situation in which you might want to create and interface and implement that interface in all you user controls. I see a lot of use for something like this. I'll look into other ways, but I'm pretty sure you can't get do much more. Even with the new .NET framework, I don't think generics could get you around something like this. The more I think about it, I think you'll have to create a generic class (that inherits UserControl) or implement an interface.
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