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 SolidColorBrush(); mySolidColorBrush.Color = Color.FromArgb(255, 0, 0, 255); 

So I wrote (considering my method receives color as #ffaacc):

Color.FromRgb(   Convert.ToInt32(color.Substring(1, 2), 16),    Convert.ToInt32(color.Substring(3, 2), 16),    Convert.ToInt32(color.Substring(5, 2), 16)); 

But this gave error as

The best overloaded method match for 'System.Windows.Media.Color.FromRgb(byte, byte, byte)' has some invalid arguments

Also 3 errors as: Cannot convert int to byte.

But then how MSDN example works?

Answer 1

Try this instead:

(SolidColorBrush)new BrushConverter().ConvertFrom("#ffaacc");