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

Final solution, that works as well on UWP:

 public static Color GetColorFromHex(string hexString) {
            //add default transparency to ignore exception
            if ( !string.IsNullOrEmpty(hexString) && hexString.Length > 6 ) {
                if ( hexString.Length == 7 ) {
                    hexString = "FF" + hexString;
                }

                hexString = hexString.Replace("#", string.Empty);
                byte a = (byte) ( Convert.ToUInt32(hexString.Substring(0, 2), 16) );
                byte r = (byte) ( Convert.ToUInt32(hexString.Substring(2, 2), 16) );
                byte g = (byte) ( Convert.ToUInt32(hexString.Substring(4, 2), 16) );
                byte b = (byte) ( Convert.ToUInt32(hexString.Substring(6, 2), 16) );
                Color color = Color.FromArgb(a, r, g, b);
                return color;
            }

            //return black if hex is null or invalid
            return Color.FromArgb(255, 0, 0, 0);
        }

Answer 2

generete a file namely: ColorUtils.cs

using Windows.UI.Xaml.Markup;
....
 static class ColorUtils
    {
        public static Color GetColorFromHex(string hexString)
        {
            Color x =(Color)XamlBindingHelper.ConvertValue(typeof(Color), hexString);
            return x;
        }
    }

and use it something like

var acolor=(new SolidColorBrush(ColorUtils.GetColorFromHex("#F24C27")):

or with alpha

var acolor=(new SolidColorBrush(ColorUtils.GetColorFromHex("#4CF24C27")):