Parse string to enum type

Question

I have an enum type like this as an example:

public Enum MyEnum {
    enum1, enum2, enum3 };

I\'ll read a string from config file. What I n

Answer 1

This is an old question, but now .NET 4.5 has Enum.TryParse().

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd991317.aspx