I am trying to try some xna unleashed book code.  I have all my classes, and no errors.  The only error I get is at runtime, and it is

Error loading "Content\Skyboxes\skybox". File contains Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Graphics.Texture2D but trying to load as FinalWork.Skybox.

Is this a known error, and what is the way of fixing it?  The classes it is sent to is

public class SkyboxReader : ContentTypeReader<Skybox>
    {
        protected override Skybox Read(ContentReader input, Skybox existingInstance)
        {
            return new Skybox(input); //read data from compiled XNB format
        }
    }

    public class Skybox
    {
        private Model skyboxModel;
        private Texture2D skyboxTexture;

        // marked as internal since it is only called by our reader
        internal Skybox(ContentReader input)
        {
            skyboxModel = input.ReadObject<Model>();
            skyboxTexture = input.ReadObject<Texture2D>();
        }

And the call is

skybox = content.Load<Skybox>(@"Content\Skyboxes\skybox");

The above call is just for a .tga file.  I dont know what is expected as I dont know what this ContentReader is.  Any advise appreciated.

 cheers

change content.Load<Skybox> to content.Load<Texture2D> then try to run it.  If it generates another error somewhere else, Id assumemaybe you are missing a reference in your main startup project or a using namespace..

I dont know if anyone knows the book, but it appears it was written for xna 1.0.  Would this be causing my problem?

cheers

I am having the exact same problem as nick2price. It is from the book Microsoft® XNA™ Game Studio 3.0 2009 edition. This problem is driving me crazy...

erm your : ContentTypeReader<TRead> // says Skybox

and should have a using statement of  using TRead = XELibrary.Skybox;

Edit:- what about page 164 - did u do that? (Fired it up to see which one caused it to give that error, u not done page 164) changing the Content Processor part...

Thanks Lowtechdog.