Re: C#/VB.net pageitem invalid cast

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From: Bob_Stucky
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 13:19

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Many of InDesign's methods return more than one type of object. That is by design, and intended to work with the less-strongly-typed scripting languages such as VBScript, AppleScript, or JavaScript.

Unfortunately, C# and VB.Net do not support that. VBScript supports a Variant type, which works, but that was removed in VB .Net.

There is no easy solution to your problem other than to NEVER use a method that can return more than 1 type.

You could try using JScript .Net, which does retain the loose typing features of JavaScript.

Regards

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