Creating SolidColorBrush from hex color value

Question

I want to create SolidColorBrush from Hex value such as #ffaacc. How can I do this?

On MSDN, I got :

SolidColorBrush mySolidColorBrush = new SolidCol         


        

Answer 1

If you don't want to deal with the pain of the conversion every time simply create an extension method.

public static class Extensions
{
    public static SolidColorBrush ToBrush(this string HexColorString)
    {
        return (SolidColorBrush)(new BrushConverter().ConvertFrom(HexColorString));
    }    
}

Then use like this: BackColor = "#FFADD8E6".ToBrush()

Alternately if you could provide a method to do the same thing.

public SolidColorBrush BrushFromHex(string hexColorString)
{
    return (SolidColorBrush)(new BrushConverter().ConvertFrom(hexColorString));
}

BackColor = BrushFromHex("#FFADD8E6");