In C# , How can i create a System.Drawing.Color object using a hex value ?

Question

In C# , How can i create a System.Drawing.Color object using a value like this #FFFFF,#FGFG01 etc...

Answer 1

string hexValue = "#000000"; // You do need the hash
Color colour = System.Drawing.ColorTranslator.FromHtml(hexValue); // Yippee

Edit: You do actually need the hash, or the alpha value won't be taken into account. Woops!

Answer 2

var my col = Color.FromArgb(int x);

note you need to specify an alpha value as well (probably you want FF for this, i.e. fully opaque, so add 0xFF000000 to the colour hex value)

Answer 3

Color.FromArgb(Convert.ToInt32( str.Substring(1), 16 ));

Answer 4

Can you change the values to start with FF? E.g. FFFFFFFF = white. This is to add the alpha value to the beginning.

If so, just parse the value with System.Drawing.Color.FromArgb. It takes an int where the first 8 bits are the alpha value. 255 is opaque.

To convert your string into an int, use Int32.Parse. E.g.

String HexColourValue = "FABFAB";
System.Drawing.Color colour = System.Drawing.Color.FromArgb(Int32.Parse("FF"+HexColourValue,
                              System.Globalization.NumberStyles.HexNumber));

Make sure that HexColourValue doesn't have '#' in it.