Creating dynamic generics at runtime using Reflection
- by MPhlegmatic
I'm trying to convert a Dictionary< dynamic, dynamic to a statically-typed one by examining the types of the keys and values and creating a new Dictionary of the appropriate types using Reflection. If I know the key and value types, I can do the following:
Type dictType = typeof(Dictionary<,>);
newDict = Activator.CreateInstance(dictType.MakeGenericType(new Type[] { keyType, valueType }));
However, I may need to create, for example, a Dictionary< MyKeyType, dynamic if the values are not all of the same type, and I can't figure out how to specify the dynamic type, since
typeof(dynamic)
isn't viable.
How would I go about doing this, and/or is there a simpler way to accomplish what I'm trying to do?
