Get System.Drawing.Color from RGB HTML color
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Maybe you already know about this, but as I still often
see static method like GetColorFromHTML() in companies
static class, it could be a good reminder.
The idea is when you want to set a color in code, like GridView1.ForeColor = "#FFCC66", but this do not work because the property is of type System.Drawing.Color.
You don't need to create a convert method as there is
already such a method in the Framework, but the location is
not obvious.
First I would have checked for
System.Drawing.Color.FromHTML() as there is already a
System.Drawing.Color.FromArgb(), but no, it is not there.
Instead you have to look in
System.Drawing.ColorTranslator.
Convert a RGB color to System.Drawing.Color:
C#:
System.Drawing.Color col =
System.Drawing.ColorTranslator
VB:
Dim col As System.Drawing.Color =
System.Drawing.ColorTranslator
Convert a System.Drawing.Color to RGB string:
C#:
String sHtmlColor =
System.Drawing.ColorTranslator
VB:
Dim sHtmlColor As String =
System.Drawing.ColorTranslator