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How do I change forecolor of Label programmatically? I have tried... lblTest.forecolor="green" but keeping getting "System.String cannot be converted to System.Drawing.Color" error. Any help would be appreciated. This is a good question because it gives me the opportunity to address some of the fundamentals of how the .NET Framework handles data types. In classic ASP a color name and a string didn't seem any different in that they were both string values. In .NET data types are much more important and much

	System.Drawing.Color
	System.EventArgs
	System.String
	System.Web.UI.WebControls.DropDownList
	System.Web.UI.WebControls.ListItem

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