Add Color.FromHtml

[HarelM]

It would be extremely useful for migration from System.Drawing to this library to have the FromHtml equivalent.
The FromHtml takes a string which can be a color name or hex string and converts it to the relevant color.
As a side note, there are 3.5 million downloads to this library, I think it can be released instead of being a pre-release...
Can also be called Color.FromString.

[JimBobSquarePants]

As a side note, there are 3.5 million downloads to this library, I think it can be released instead of being a pre-release

Nearly there. Got a few API updates to make and we'll be ready for the RC1 release. You'd be amazed how much churn there has actually been getting this correct.

[JimBobSquarePants]

@HarelM I've added two new methods to the API, you can grab them from the nightlies now.

void Color.Parse(string input) and bool Color.TryParse(string input, out Color result)

[HarelM]

Cool! Thanks for the quick implementation!
Let me know when a new version is released.

[JimBobSquarePants]

There's a download available right now from our MyGet feed. It's very close to what our RC1 build will be so I recommend it.

[HarelM]

Any chance for a pre-release on global Nuget? I prefer not to add MyGet source to my build CI machine/code if possible :-)

[antonfirsov]

Personally, I understand your concern (a few weeks ago we lost the whole myget history by mistake 😞 ), put publishing to nuget is a big chore. Having proper release notes is an absolute minimum to do, when releasing a new version, and it's already a lot of work.

The more frequently we do this, the less time we have to work on actual features and bugfixes, so we prefer to stick to our milestones, unless we miss the original deadline by months. Beta6 and 7 were released because of this, we'd like to avoid having a Beta8.