title: Transparent accent color
body: <p>I want to fade some elements (rectangles and ellipses) from the accent color to transparent using a LinearGradientBrush. However - the transparent color is always a color and it seems like the color "Transparent" is #00FFFFFF - that is white with 0% opacity.</p>
  
  <p>I would like to fade from PhoneAccentColor to <em>PhoneTransparentAccentColor</em>. So if my accent color is red I would like to fade to #00FF0000 and if it is green I would like to fade to #0000FF00.</p>
  
  <p>I can't find any built in color resource for transparent accent so what are my options here? I've tried the options below but with no real success and I can't find much on this topic by normal search channels so I'm not really sure what I'm missing here.</p>
  
  <p>Some suggestions I came up with (however with no real success as stated earlier):</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Create a custom resource in code behind and push it into the application wide resource dictionary?</li>
  <li>Can I expose a property on my ViewModels with the Color and bind to it?</li>
  </ul>