WPF save colors to database

I've been trying to figure out how to handle brushes in WPF. I want to let the user configure the colors they like and save that in a database which I've more or less figured out how to do (use solidcolorbrushes then cast that to a color and toostring gives me the value which I can save as VARCHAR in an accdb.

What I haven't been able to decipher is how to go from a string like #FFE2F2EF to a color and then a solidbrush. Seems winforms has simple ways but I can't find anything for WPF.

Of course there is probably a simple method that I just can't seem to find.

Anyone have any ideas?

WPF is annoying like that with simple ways of doing thing just overlooked so we have to do it ourselves. Here is a function that could convert that String into a Color:-

Code:

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    Private Function GetColor(ByVal colorStr As String) As Color
        Dim c As UInteger = Convert.ToUInt32(colorStr.Substring(1), 16)
        Dim A, R, G, B As Byte

        B = c And &HFFI
        G = (c And (&HFFI << 8)) >> 8
        R = (c And (&HFFI << 16)) >> 16
        A = (c And (&HFFI << 24)) >> 24

        Return Color.FromArgb(A, R, G, B)
    End Function

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