>>I need to figure out how to get an object reference from a string name in Visual Basic. I have a function that takes a string parameter, which is the name of an object. I want to be able to reference that object and call one of it's methods. Something like the Eval() function. Any suggestions?
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>I don't believe that's possible in VB.
>Why not just pass in the object?

Here is what I am trying to do. I am trying to create a COM object that will use the Data Reports tool to generate HTML pages that can be printed. I will call this from ASP pages with some parameters to grab the data I need and then run the report out to an HTML page. I have it all working, but I would like to be able to simply create the new report and add it to the project without have to code in a SELECT CASE for every report I add. It seems like there should be a way to do this, even Java has a ClassForName method to do this kind of thing.