public Color ToColor(string color)
{
int red, green, blue = 0;
char[] rgb;
color = color.TrimStart('#');
color = Regex.Replace(color.ToLower(), "[g-zG-Z]", "");
switch (color.Length)
{
case 3:
rgb = color.ToCharArray();
red = Convert.ToInt32(rgb[0].ToString() + rgb[0].ToString(), 16);
green = Convert.ToInt32(rgb[1].ToString() + rgb[1].ToString(), 16);
blue = Convert.ToInt32(rgb[2].ToString() + rgb[2].ToString(), 16);
return Color.FromArgb(red, green, blue);
case 6:
rgb = color.ToCharArray();
red = Convert.ToInt32(rgb[0].ToString() + rgb[1].ToString(), 16);
green = Convert.ToInt32(rgb[2].ToString() + rgb[3].ToString(), 16);
blue = Convert.ToInt32(rgb[4].ToString() + rgb[5].ToString(), 16);
return Color.FromArgb(red, green, blue);
default:
return Color.FromName(color);
}
}