Converting Text to Default Colors in VB.NET

From: Terry (Terry_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 09/30/04 

Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 11:35:09 -0700

I have an XML file that has settings for my app. Many of the settings
involve color (i.e. <BackColor>Red</BackColor>). The XML value is read into
a string, so I have a string called strBackColor with the value "Red". Now I
want to set the form to BackColor.Red. How do I do this without having a
giant SELECT like this...

SELECT CASE strBackColor
CASE "Red"
Me.BackColor = Backcolor.Red
CASE "Blue"
Me.BackColor = Backcolor.Red
...
END SELECT

Acually, I want it to be part of a global shared method that I can use
throughout my system, where I pass in a String and it returns the color..like

Me.BackColor = CStringToColor(strBackColor)

Thanks for your help,
Terry

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