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?

Voting to reopen, the dup question deals with a different type of Color structure. — gunr2171
– gunr2171, Commented Apr 1, 2015 at 18:09

varg · Accepted Answer · 2012-08-28 08:58:31Z

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

Note: the hash is important!

answered Aug 28, 2012 at 8:58

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Adrian K Over a year ago

What about in UWP, where there is no System.Drawing namespace?

wonea Over a year ago

@AdrianK use the answer from codeteq. It work for me from NetStandard 2.0

Jeppen Over a year ago

This worked for me: item.BackgroundColor = Color.FromHex(line.s_BackGroundCol);

SidAhmed · Accepted Answer · 2012-08-28 09:04:59Z

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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");

edited Aug 28, 2012 at 9:04

answered Aug 28, 2012 at 8:58

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Darius Miliauskas Over a year ago

When I convert white, I get not the white color exactly.

wonea · Accepted Answer · 2017-08-17 14:01:16Z

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Remove the '#' and do

Color c = Color.FromArgb(int.Parse("#FFFFFF".Replace("#",""),
                         System.Globalization.NumberStyles.AllowHexSpecifier));

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answered Aug 28, 2012 at 8:58

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freefaller Over a year ago

There are options available which do no require the conversion to a numeric value, this is an unnecessary step. The OP states it's a string

jwatts1980 Over a year ago

The other solutions are converting the string into a numeric value too, they are just doing it internally. If this is a question of optimization, then performance testing would be required to see how Color.FromArgb() w/ int.Parse() compare to ColorConvertor.ConvertFromString() and ColorTranslator.FromHtml().

Nyerguds Over a year ago

Won't that have an alpha value of 0?

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