C# - Selecting And Building A Control From A Control Library Dynamically, Using The Control Name From A Table?

I have a custom DDL that lives in my Server control library. Currently I add this control to a table by strongly typing the name of the control, the customary way.

Control_Library.Report_NumberDDL newDDL = new Control_Library.Report_NumberDDL();


What I want to be able to do is dynamically create that control by pulling the control name from a table. So I would have the name of the control in my code, in this case "Report_NumberDDL", and I would like to then create the control without having to strongly type it.

Something like this, though I know this doesn't work:

string controlName = "Report_NumberDDL";

Control_Library."controlName" controlNum1 = new Control_Library."controlName"();

Edit:I tried to do this:

Type type = Type.GetType("Control_Library.Report_NumberDDL");
object control = Activator.CreateInstance(type);

But on the CreateInstance(type) I get a null value exception. So the Type isn't getting created correctly.