Datagridview cellstyle

[Steve]

Hi All

I am using VB.net 2005 professional

I set the background color of a datagridview cell to different colors
depending on many reasons

I set them in the cellformatting event and all works great, i.e the colors
appear as requested
e.g e.CellStyle.Bac kColor = Color.Red

When I try to read the color in Datagridview.mo useclick event using...
If
dgvgroup.Rows(h it.RowIndex).Ce lls(hit.ColumnI ndex).Inherited Style.BackColor
= mycolor Then

it always returns false

end if

Note: mycolor = color.salmonpin k and actual grid cell color =
color.salmonpin k

but
dgvgroup.Rows(h it.RowIndex).Ce lls(hit.ColumnI ndex).Inherited Style.BackColor
returns color.honeydew which is the defaultcellstyl e.backcolor set in

datagridview properties defaultcellstyl e in design environment

what am I doing wrong

Regards

Steve