Saving Colors to a db

Peter Osucha <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.windows.devel.dotnet.winforms
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

I am saving Color values to a database as integers after converting the
color using the ToArgb() method.  When I retrieve the color, I am
resetting it using the FromArgb() method.  However, this doesn't
preserve the color name if the color has a name - as shown in this
simple test proc.

        private void Button3_Click ( object sender, EventArgs e )
        {
            Color col1 = Color.DarkBlue;
            int col1int = col1.ToArgb ( );
            Color col2 = Color.FromArgb ( col1int );
            Console.WriteLine ( "{0}, {1}", col1, col2 );
        }

If I desire to save and retrieve Colors to a database and to preserve
the color name if it exists, I imagine I need to save a string of the
name instead of the argb value?

Peter
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