How to convert Hexadecimal #FFFFFF to System.Drawing.Color [duplicate]

Question

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How to get Color from Hex color code using .NET?

I want to convert a string like #FFFFFF to System.Drawing.Color. How do you do that?

Answer 1

string hex = "#FFFFFF"; Color _color = System.Drawing.ColorTranslator.FromHtml(hex); 

Note: the hash is important!

Answer 2

You can do

var color =  System.Drawing.ColorTranslator.FromHtml("#FFFFFF"); 

Or this (you will need the System.Windows.Media namespace)

var color = (Color)ColorConverter.ConvertFromString("#FFFFFF");