Question

I’m working on a custom struct and I would like to give it the ability to implicitly be created from another type.

Say I have two struct types. Color and ColorX, where Color is a struct already in the framework that I cannot change.

Using implicit operator, to be able to say for example.

Color C;
ColorX CX;
CX = new ColorX();
C = CX;

However, I would like to be able to do it the other way around as well. Either by directly setting it, or by making a cast. Being able to do both would be gold. For example.

C = new Color();
CX = C;

or cast it like so:

CX = (ColorX)C;

Consider all the other useful operators in C#, I’m sure there is a way to do this, I just can’t find the syntax.

Any help is greatly appreciated! Thank you very much.

Answer 1

You would do this with the implicit operator in C#:

public static implicit operator ColorX(Color original)
{
     return new ColorX(original);
}