How to instantiate an object with a private constructor in C#?
You can use one of the overloads of Activator.CreateInstance to do this: Activator.CreateInstance(Type type, bool nonPublic) Use true for the nonPublic argument. Because true matches a public or non-public default constructor; and false matches only a public default constructor. For example: class Program { public static void Main(string[] args) { Type type=typeof(Foo); Foo f=(Foo)Activator.CreateInstance(type,true); } … Read more