Object of type “X” cannot be converted to object of type “X”

Question

(Can\'t believe this hasn\'t already been asked, but I can\'t find a dup)

In Visual Studio with lots of projects, when I first open the solution, I sometime

Answer 1

The Types indicated may have same name, same namespace, and same Assembly (DLL) but on different versions or location.

You may try the following code on those two objects you are referring to define the location of their assemblies.

SampleObject.GetType().Assembly.CodeBase