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

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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?


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

Note: the hash is important!


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");