How to get a enum value from string in C#?

Question

I have an enum:

public enum baseKey : uint
{  
    HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT = 0x80000000,
    HKEY_CURRENT_USER = 0x80000001,
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE = 0x80000002,
          


        

Answer 1

Using Enum.TryParse you don't need the Exception handling:

baseKey e;

if ( Enum.TryParse(s, out e) )
{
 ...
}