Swapping out a color programmatically

[BobAchgill]

When I try to change the Color.Lime with a string that
contains the contents "Color.Lime" I get a Casting
compile error. So how can I get past this casting issue
to change out the color programmatically?


This is the line of code without trying to change color
programmatically (no problem):


Dim LVI As New ListViewItem(New String() {myDataRow
("Id").ToString(), myDataRow("fName"), myDataRow
("lName")}, -1, Color.Empty, Color.Lime, Nothing)


Thes are the lines of code when I try to change the color
programmatically:


Dim strRowColor As Object = "Color.Lime"

Dim LVI As New ListViewItem(New String() {myDataRow
("Id").ToString(), myDataRow("fName"), myDataRow
("lName")}, -1, Color.Empty, strRowColor, Nothing)


This is the error message that I get trying to change the
color using a variable to substitute the color on the run:

"Specified cast is not valid"

What will work here to accomplish changing the color?

 

[Peter Proost]

This should help

Dim strColor As String = "White"
TextBox1.ForeColor = Color.FromName(strColor)

Peter