Calling an internal constructor

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I know I can use reflection to call internal, protected, and private methods
in a class, but I need to instantiate an object that is public but has an
internal constructor (The CurrencyManager class).

Is there a way to do this with reflection?

I'm so mad at MS about the CurrencyManager design it makes me want to
scream. It's been causing me headaches for months.

All of this would be easily fixable if I could create my own CurrencyManager
derived from BindingManagerBase, and though the documentation has a "Note to
inheritors" section, BindingManagerBase actually has internal virtual
methods, so there's no way to derive from it outside of S.W.F. ARGH.

Pete


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