Get Color from Hex values in Silverlight
Since Silverlight does not support System.Drawing.ColorTranslator the following method can be used to convert Html Color values to a Color object.
public static Color GetColor(string htmlColor) {
return Color.FromArgb(255,
Convert.ToByte(htmlColor.Substring(1, 2), 16),
Convert.ToByte(htmlColor.Substring(3, 2), 16),
Convert.ToByte(htmlColor.Substring(5, 2), 16)
);
}