Excel 2007 conditional formatting - how to get cell color?

Question

Let\'s assume i have the following range from (a1:c3)

  A B C
1 -1 1 1
2 -1 0 0
3  0 0 1

Now i have selected the following range, and forma

Answer 1

since i may have more than three different colors in a time... i didn't find any good way of handling this with conditional formatting's default colors... i did it this way. then whenever i ask the color of the cell, i retrieve the correct color!

 for (int t = 0; t < d_distinct.Length; t++ )
 {                        
   Excel.FormatCondition cond =
    (Excel.FormatCondition)range.FormatConditions.Add(
    Excel.XlFormatConditionType.xlCellValue,
    Excel.XlFormatConditionOperator.xlEqual, 
    "="+d_distinct[t],
    mis, mis, mis, mis, mis);
   cond.Interior.PatternColorIndex = 
    Excel.Constants.xlAutomatic;
  cond.Interior.TintAndShade = 0;
  cond.Interior.Color = ColorTranslator.ToWin32(c[t]);
  cond.StopIfTrue = false;                        
}

d_distinct holds all the distinct values in a range... c is a Color[] which holds distinct colors for every distinct value! this code can easily be translated to vb!