Brush from color code

Question

How to create a brush from the color code?

#FFFFE4C4 is an example of of what I call a color code.
e.g. what I would like to do is

Brush brush = new Brush(#FFFFE4C4);

[Duplicate](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10062376/creating-solidcolorbrush-from-hex-color-value)? — Lynn, Jul 04 '13 at 21:57

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:32

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First get a color from the color code, the create a brush from that:

Brush brush = new SolidBrush((Color)ColorConverter.ConvertFromString("#FFFFE4C4"));

edited May 23 '17 at 10:32

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answered Jul 04 '13 at 21:58

Guffa

@Blam: Aha, it's the `System.Windows.Media` brush, not the `System.Drawing` brush... You can create it the exact same way from a color. – Guffa Jul 04 '13 at 22:09
Thanks, I just did not have the namespace included – paparazzo Jul 04 '13 at 22:17

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