String to enum conversion in C#

Question

I have a combo box where I am displaying some entries like:

Equals
Not Equals 
Less Than
Greater Than

Notice that these strings contain spa

Answer 1

I would use a singleton of this enum mapper class that performs much faster than Enum.Parse (which uses reflection and is really slow). You can then use EnumFromString(typeof(YourEnum), "stringValue") to get your enum.