From cd4791538a0928d690684bf7e8df3916926c9897 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chris Cameron <chris.cameron@wedoresi.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 15:23:08 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Shim to instantiate a known type

---
 ICD.Common.Utils/ReflectionUtils.cs | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/ICD.Common.Utils/ReflectionUtils.cs b/ICD.Common.Utils/ReflectionUtils.cs
index 2cd7c36..76b182b 100644
--- a/ICD.Common.Utils/ReflectionUtils.cs
+++ b/ICD.Common.Utils/ReflectionUtils.cs
@@ -260,6 +260,21 @@ namespace ICD.Common.Utils
 			}
 		}
 
+		/// <summary>
+		/// Creates an instance of the given type, calling the default constructor.
+		/// </summary>
+		/// <returns></returns>
+		public static T CreateInstance<T>(Type type)
+		{
+			if (type == null)
+				throw new ArgumentNullException("type");
+
+			if (!type.IsAssignableTo(typeof(T)))
+				throw new InvalidOperationException("Type is not assignable to T");
+
+			return (T)CreateInstance(type);
+		}
+
 		/// <summary>
 		/// Gets the custom attributes added to the given assembly.
 		/// </summary>