Many Xamarin users come from the Java environment and are starting with c#.
For those who don't know yet: please don't cast. Use the as operator instead.
Example:
In many situations, your method may seem like this:
void testcast(object img)
{
Label label1 = img as Label; // label1 will simply be null
Label label2 = (Label)img; // you get an InvalidCastException
}