How to get foreground color from hex code in C#?

Question

    using System;
    class ColorTheText
    {
        public static void Main(string [] args)
        {
            Console.ForegroundColor = ConsoleColor.Red;
            Console.WriteLine("\t\tCongratulations! You have cleared this level. \n\n\t\t\t    Entering Level 2...");
            Console.ForegroundColor = ConsoleColor.White;
        }
    }

But I want to get the color from hex code i.e. ConsoleColor. color from hex code (#c0c0c0). How to do it?

[This answer](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7937256/changing-text-color-in-c-sharp-console-application) says "No hex allowed" for ConsoleColor — Jonesopolis, Oct 24 '13 at 13:44
error CS0117: 'System.ConsoleColor' does not contain a definition for 'silver' or 'Silver' — Arun Pandey, Oct 24 '13 at 13:47
There are only 16 possible colors so you could just hard-code the Color to ConsoleColor mapping with a switch() statement. Do note that the names don't necessarily match the actual color that the user sees. The console window allows remapping the color index to another color. — Hans Passant, Oct 24 '13 at 14:05

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 24 '13 at 19:50

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System.Drawing.ColorTranslator.FromHtml("#c0c0c0");

Something like that is what you need? Perhaps you serve.

Sorry for my english.

answered Oct 24 '13 at 19:50

Nacho

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That will return `Color` instead of `ConsoleColor` which is required – Sergey Berezovskiy Oct 24 '13 at 19:53
You have reason, sorry. – Nacho Oct 24 '13 at 19:56

How to get foreground color from hex code in C#?

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