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

Here is an easy to use code snippet

public Color HexColor(String hex)
{
 //remove the # at the front
 hex = hex.Replace("#", "");

 byte a = 255;
 byte r = 255;
 byte g = 255;
 byte b = 255;

 int start = 0;

 //handle ARGB strings (8 characters long)
 if (hex.Length == 8)
 {
     a = byte.Parse(hex.Substring(0, 2), System.Globalization.NumberStyles.HexNumber);
     start = 2;
 }

 //convert RGB characters to bytes
 r = byte.Parse(hex.Substring(start, 2), System.Globalization.NumberStyles.HexNumber);
 g = byte.Parse(hex.Substring(start+2, 2), System.Globalization.NumberStyles.HexNumber);
 b = byte.Parse(hex.Substring(start+4, 2), System.Globalization.NumberStyles.HexNumber);

 return Color.FromArgb(a, r, g, b);
}

and you can simply call like the below one

Color c = HexColor("#99ccff");

I tested this in winphone 8.1 and it works

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