wpf listbox with colorized items

Question

I have a Listbox which I use as Color Palette. The colors are added with hex code. Hex code is hardly readable for Humans (at least me) which is why I want to colorize the Items in my ListBox.

My Listbox looks like this right now:

As an example of what I mean, I have a simple TextBox which is beeing colorized:

System.Drawing.Color? color = cl.ColorFromHexString(Basecolor.Text);
if (color != null)
{
    System.Drawing.Color col = (System.Drawing.Color)color;
    this.Basecolor.Foreground = new SolidColorBrush(cl.ToMediaColor(col));
}

The Listbox Items are assigned by using the following code (probably not best practice):

List<String> ColorStringPalette = new List<string>();
private void AddColorButton_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
    System.Drawing.Color? color = cl.ColorFromHexString(ColorHexCode.Text);
    if (color != null)
    {
        if (!ColorStringPalette.Contains(ColorHexCode.Text))
        {
            ColorStringPalette.Add(ColorHexCode.Text);
        }
        ColorList.ItemsSource = ColorStringPalette;
    }
}

What would be the apropriate way to set foreground colors for the individual items of the Listbox?

Answer 1

you can change ItemTemplate and bind Foreground (it requires brush but will do converion from string):

<ListBox.ItemTemplate>
    <DataTemplate>
         <TextBlock Text="{Binding}" Foreground="{Binding}"/>
    </DataTemplate>
</ListBox.ItemTemplate>