Silverlight/WPF set elipse with hexadecimal colour

I am trying to set a colour of an elipse object in code behind. So far I'm doing it by using the SolidColorBrush method. Wonder if there is a way to insert the colour value in hexadecimal, like in css.

Here is a code that I am using:

ellipse.Fill = new SolidColorBrush(Colors.Yellow);

From stackoverflow

• Something like this would work

  ellipse.Fill = 
      new SolidColorBrush((Color)ColorConverter.ConvertFromString("#FF00DD"));
  

  (Edit: It looks like this is WPF only. Alex Golesh has a blog post here about his Silverlight ColorConverter)

  Although I prefer the Color.FromRgb method

  byte r = 255;
  byte g = 0;
  byte b = 221;
  ellipse.Fill = new SolidColorBrush(Color.FromRgb(r,g,b));
  

  Drahcir : What do I need to inherit to use the ColorConverter?

  Ray : In WPF it's in System.Windows.Media, in Silverlight, well it's not. See my edit.

• I wrote a simple color converter function to solve this problem. The happy faces are really the number 8 and a parentheses, like this: 8).

• From MSDN

  SolidColorBrush mySolidColorBrush = new SolidColorBrush();
  
  // Describes the brush's color using RGB values. 
  // Each value has a range of 0-255.
  mySolidColorBrush.Color = Color.FromArgb(255, 0, 0, 255);
  myRgbRectangle.Fill = mySolidColorBrush;
  

• Of course, you could also do something like this (using the hex numbers in the FromArgb function):

  SolidColorBrush mySolidColorBrush = new SolidColorBrush();
  
  // Describes the brush's color using RGB HEX values. 
  // Each value has a range of 0-255. Use 0x for HEX numbers
  mySolidColorBrush.Color = Color.FromArgb(255, 0xFF, 0xC0, 0xD0);
  myRgbRectangle.Fill = mySolidColorBrush;
  

• Another one small, fast and usefull

  public static Color ToColor(this uint argb)
  {
      return Color.FromArgb((byte)((argb & -16777216) >> 0x18),
                            (byte)((argb & 0xff0000) >> 0x10),
                            (byte)((argb & 0xff00) >> 8),
                            (byte)(argb & 0xff));
  }
  

  Use in code

  SolidColorBrush scb  = new SolidColorBrush (0xFFABCDEF.ToColor());
  

  of course it is need to use 0xFFFFFFFF (uint) notation insted "#FFFFFFFF" (string) but, I shure it's no big deal.