Color not working anymore after referencing Inventor to vb.net??

[Anonymous]

Hi I have a form that I created in vb.net which had no errors untill I refrenced the Inventor "Autodesk.Inventor.Interop.dll" now anything to do with color such as the code bellow has an error stating that "Black is not a member of color"? Thats really anoying dose anybody know how to fix this?

  'Numeric value check Angle 2 section...S
        If IsNumeric(DataGridView2.Rows(6).Cells(1).Value) Then
            'Restores font style to proper values if error occoured before...
            DataGridView2.Rows(6).Cells(1).Style.ForeColor = Color.Black
            DataGridView2.Rows(6).Cells(1).Style.BackColor = Color.White
        Else

 

[_Tharwat]

It is better to post the VB codes in its correct forum, so the following link is for VB.net.

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/visual-basic-customization/bd-p/33

[_gile · Accepted solution]

Hi,

I don't know the Inventor COM API but it may contain a 'Color' type which should create a conflict with the System.Drawing.Color one.

Try using the fully qualified name:

DataGridView2.Rows(6).Cells(1).Style.ForeColor = System.Drawing.Color.Black
DataGridView2.Rows(6).Cells(1).Style.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.White

[Anonymous]

How do I do that otherwise some smartypants will whinge about double posts?

[_gile]

IMO you're in the right place as your request is about .NET.

[Anonymous]

Fair enougth this works... Why is this happening then? (just trying to gain understanding)

[_gile · Accepted solution]

As I said, two different namespaces may contain a type (class) with the same name so, you need to differentiate them using their fully qualified names (or aliases if this exists with VB).

[Anonymous]

makes sense 🙂