Finding exception with reflection

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____ I am coming across a problem when I am doing dynamic instantiation of objects using reflection. I will use a basic example but in real world implementation is much more complex.
If I have a class:

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<span style="color:Blue; public <span style="color:Blue; class Sack
{
<span style="color:Blue; public Sack()
{
<span style="color:Blue; throw <span style="color:Blue; new Exception();
}
}
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And I instantiate this object:

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Sack s = <span style="color:Blue; new Sack();
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Visual Studio will throw an exception at the line: <span style="font-family:monospace; white-spacere throw new Exception();
<span style="font-family:monospace; font-size:xx-small <span style="font-size:9px; white-spacere <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:small <span style="font-size:11px; white-space:normal Which is desirable (for my
purposes).

<span style="font-family:monospace; font-size:xx-small <span style="font-size:9px; white-spacere <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:small <span style="font-size:11px; white-space:normal However if I instantiate the
object using reflection:

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Assembly testAssembly = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly();

Type calcType = testAssembly.GetType(<span style="color:#A31515; "DynamicObjectReflectionInstantiation.Sack");
<span style="color:Blue; object calcInstance = Activator.CreateInstance(calcType);
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The exception will be thrown at the line:

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<span style="color:Blue; object calcInstance = Activator.CreateInstance(calcType);
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This is undesirable because if the constructor of Sack is complex it is difficult to track down where the exception is being thrown...

I hope this makes sense. Thanks for your help.

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