Is this Factory Method creation pattern?

Question

I have been using factory method creation pattern for awhile now. I was just recently told that this:

public static class ScheduleTypeFactory
{
    public st         


        

Answer 1

Yes this is a factory pattern. My only comment would be that you fail silently for enum values that you don't specifically handle. That may be expected but I like to add the following to the end of statements like that

default:
  throw new InvalidOperationException("Invalid Enum Value");