Using the UI Styling package

The UI Styling package is designed for improving the flow of designing native applications for Windows, Android, iOS, macOS, Linux, and the web.

Converting HEX strings to colors and SolidColorBrush with ColorExtensions

The MADE.UI.Styling.Colors.ColorExtensions provides a collection of extensions that can be used to manipulate System.Drawing.Color, Windows.UI.Color or Windows.UI.Xaml.Media.SolidColorBrush objects such as converting a HEX value to them and back.

Below are some example usages for your applications built for Windows and the Uno Platform.

Convert HEX String to Color and back example

private void HexColorConversion()
{
    Windows.UI.Color redWindowsColor = "#FF0000".ToWindowsColor();
    System.Drawing.Color redSystemColor = "#FF0000".ToSystemColor();

    string redHex = redColor.ToHexString(); // or redSystemColor.ToHexString();
}

Note, the ToColor() extension for HEX strings supported both RGB and ARGB formats, taking into consideration the transparency layer.

Convert Color to SolidColorBrush example

private void ColorSolidColorBrushConversion()
{
    SolidColorBrush redBrush = Windows.UI.Colors.Red.ToSolidColorBrush(); // or System.Drawing.Color.Red.ToSolidColorBrush();
}