InvalidCastException Class
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The exception that is thrown for invalid casting or explicit conversion.
Inheritance Hierarchy
System.Object
System.Exception
System.SystemException
System.InvalidCastException
Namespace: System
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
Syntax
'Declaration
<ComVisibleAttribute(True)> _
Public Class InvalidCastException _
Inherits SystemException
[ComVisibleAttribute(true)]
public class InvalidCastException : SystemException
The InvalidCastException type exposes the following members.
Constructors
Name | Description | |
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InvalidCastException() | Initializes a new instance of the InvalidCastException class. | |
InvalidCastException(String) | Initializes a new instance of the InvalidCastException class with a specified error message. | |
InvalidCastException(String, Exception) | Initializes a new instance of the InvalidCastException class with a specified error message and a reference to the inner exception that is the cause of this exception. |
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Properties
Name | Description | |
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Data | Gets a collection of key/value pairs that provide additional user-defined information about the exception. (Inherited from Exception.) | |
HResult | Gets or sets HRESULT, a coded numerical value that is assigned to a specific exception. (Inherited from Exception.) | |
InnerException | Gets the Exception instance that caused the current exception. (Inherited from Exception.) | |
Message | Gets a message that describes the current exception. (Inherited from Exception.) | |
StackTrace | Gets a string representation of the frames on the call stack at the time the current exception was thrown. (Inherited from Exception.) |
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Methods
Name | Description | |
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Equals(Object) | Determines whether the specified Object is equal to the current Object. (Inherited from Object.) | |
Finalize | Allows an object to try to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before the Object is reclaimed by garbage collection. (Inherited from Object.) | |
GetBaseException | When overridden in a derived class, returns the Exception that is the root cause of one or more subsequent exceptions. (Inherited from Exception.) | |
GetHashCode | Serves as a hash function for a particular type. (Inherited from Object.) | |
GetType | Gets the runtime type of the current instance. (Inherited from Exception.) | |
MemberwiseClone | Creates a shallow copy of the current Object. (Inherited from Object.) | |
ToString | Creates and returns a string representation of the current exception. (Inherited from Exception.) |
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Remarks
InvalidCastException is thrown if:
For a conversion from a Single or a Double to a Decimal, the source value is infinity, Not-a-Number (NaN), or too large to be represented as the destination type.
A failure occurs during an explicit reference conversion.
For an explicit reference conversion to be successful, the source value must be nulla null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic), or the object type referenced by the source argument must be convertible to the destination type by an implicit reference conversion.
For information on conversions supported by the system, see the Convert class. For errors that occur when the destination type can store source type values, but is not large enough to store a specific source value, see OverflowException exception.
The following Microsoft intermediate language (MSIL) instructions throw InvalidCastException
castclass
refanyval
unbox
For a list of initial property values for an instance of InvalidCastException, see the InvalidCastException constructors.
Version Information
Silverlight
Supported in: 5, 4, 3
Silverlight for Windows Phone
Supported in: Windows Phone OS 7.1, Windows Phone OS 7.0
XNA Framework
Supported in: Xbox 360, Windows Phone OS 7.0
Platforms
For a list of the operating systems and browsers that are supported by Silverlight, see Supported Operating Systems and Browsers.
Thread Safety
Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.