Question

I have a combobox databound to the available system colors. When the user selects a color the following code is fired:

private void cboFontColour_SelectionChanged(object sender, SelectionChangedEventArgs e)
{
    Color colour = (Color)(cboFontColour.SelectedItem);
}

This throws a Casting Exception with the following message: “Specified cast is not valid.” When I hover over cboFontColour.SelectedItem in the debugger, it is always a Color object.

I do not understand why the system seemingly cannot cast from Color to Color, any help would be much obliged.

Answer 1

Ahh finally solved it. What the function actually returned was a DependancyProperty instead of a Color. Not sure how I missed it for so long