How to get the Color Name String of Color in c# windows application

Question

I'm working on some color shades for that I have created some custom properties of colors like this..

public struct StaticColors
    {
        //White Shades
        public static Color White = ColorTranslator.FromHtml("#ecf0f1");
        public static Color White_1 = ColorTranslator.FromHtml("#c5d1d4");
        public static Color White_2 = ColorTranslator.FromHtml("#a8babf");

        //Red Shades
        public static Color Red = ColorTranslator.FromHtml("#db2828");
        public static Color Red_1 = ColorTranslator.FromHtml("#a41b1b");
        public static Color Red_2 = ColorTranslator.FromHtml("#781414");
    }

Now I want the string of any color...

var ColorName = StaticColors.White.ToString() 

then I need "White" in ColorName varibale so I can concatenate with others but I'm getting a string form of RGBA values.

any one can help me please to convert Color into string?

Answer 1

One way to do this is to use the nameof expression, which returns the string name of the member:

 var ColorName = nameof(StaticColors.White);

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Another way to accomplish this, if you want Name to be a property of the field, is to wrap the Color class in your own custom struct and give it a Name property:

public struct StaticColor
{
    public string Name { get; }
    public Color Color { get; }

    public StaticColor(string name, Color color)
    {
        Name = name;
        Color = color;
    }
}

Then in your StaticColors struct, you can have fields of this type instead of Color :

public struct StaticColors
{
    //White Shades
    public static StaticColor White = 
        new StaticColor("White", ColorTranslator.FromHtml("#ecf0f1"));
    public static StaticColor White_1 = 
        new StaticColor("White_1", ColorTranslator.FromHtml("#c5d1d4"));
    public static StaticColor White_2 = 
        new StaticColor("White_2", ColorTranslator.FromHtml("#a8babf"));

    //Red Shades
    public static StaticColor Red = 
        new StaticColor("Red", ColorTranslator.FromHtml("#db2828"));
    public static StaticColor Red_1 = 
        new StaticColor("Red_1", ColorTranslator.FromHtml("#a41b1b"));
    public static StaticColor Red_2 = 
        new StaticColor("Red_2", ColorTranslator.FromHtml("#781414"));
}

And now you can access the Color or the Name of any of the properties:

var colorName = StaticColors.White.Name;
var colorColor = StaticColors.White.Color;