How can I get the type I want?

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Published on 2010-06-03T11:05:15Z Indexed on 2010/06/03 11:14 UTC
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There are a lot of such classes in my project (very old and stable code, I can't do many changes to them, maybe slight changes are OK)

public class MyEntity
{
   public long ID { get; set; }
   public string Name { get; set; }
   public decimal Salary { get; set; }
   public static GetMyEntity ( long ID )
   {
      MyEntity e = new MyEntity();
      // load data from DB and bind to this instance
      return e;
   } 
}

For some reasons, now I need to do this:

Type t = Type.GetType("XXX"); // XXX is one of the above classes' name
MethodInfo staticM= t.GetMethods(BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.Static).FirstOrDefault();// I'm sure I can get the correct one
var o = staticM.Invoke(...); //returns a object, but I want the type above!

If I pass "MyEntity" at beginning, I hope I can get o as MyEntity! Please NOTE that I know the "name of the class" only. MyEntity e = staticM.Invoke(...) as MyEntity; can't be used here.

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