Casting ints to enums in C#

Question

There is something that I cannot understand in C#. You can cast an out-of-range int into an enum and the compiler does not flinch. Imagine this

Answer 1

Thought I'd share the code I ended up using to validate Enums, as so far we don't seem to have anything here that works...

public static class EnumHelper
{
    public static bool IsValidValue(int value)
    {
        try
        {
            Parse(value.ToString());
        }
        catch
        {
            return false;
        }

        return true;
    }

    public static T Parse(string value)
    {
        var values = GetValues();
        int valueAsInt;
        var isInteger = Int32.TryParse(value, out valueAsInt);
        if(!values.Select(v => v.ToString()).Contains(value)
            && (!isInteger || !values.Select(v => Convert.ToInt32(v)).Contains(valueAsInt)))
        {
            throw new ArgumentException("Value '" + value + "' is not a valid value for " + typeof(T));
        }

        return (T)Enum.Parse(typeof(T), value);
    }

    public static bool TryParse(string value, out T p)
    {
        try
        {
            p = Parse(value);
            return true;
        }
        catch (Exception)
        {
            p = default(T);
            return false;
        }

    }

    public static IEnumerable GetValues()
    {
        return Enum.GetValues(typeof (T)).Cast();
    }
}