Converting a string HEX to color in Windows Phone Runtime c#

Question

I am working on a windows phone game, and I got stuck when I wanted to convert a HEX string into Color. On windows phone 8 silverlight it is not a problem but I cannot find a so

Answer 1

Just in case someone is looking for a better alternative. In Universal Windows Platform (Windows 10), there is XamlBindingHelper.ConvertValue, which is much better than nothing.

// Get a Color instance representing #FFFF0000.
var color = XamlBindingHelper.ConvertValue(typeof(Windows.UI.Color), "red");

It can convert enums from Windows.UI.Xaml namespace, booleans, brushes, colors and other simple stuff XAML parser is able to do.