How can I assign the value selected in a listbox to an enum var?

Question

I want to avoid the kludginess of:

private void listBoxBeltPrinters_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
    string sel = string listBox         


        

Answer 1

With Enum.Parse you could convert from a string to a Enum.

PrintUtils.printerChoice = (PrintUtils.BeltPrinterType)Enum.Parse(typeof(PrintUtils.BeltPrinterType),listBoxeltPrinters.SelectedItem);

Also there is method Enum.TryParse which returns a bool indicating if the parse is succeeded.