Casting custom types

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.

Accepted Answer

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

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

Casting custom types

Solution

Problem