Enum.Parse(), surely a neater way?

Question

Say I have an enum,

public enum Colours
{
    Red,
    Blue
}

The only way I can see of parsing them is doing something like:

Answer 1

I believe that 4.0 has Enum.TryParse

Otherwise use an extension method:

public static bool TryParse(this Enum theEnum, string valueToParse, out T returnValue)
{
    returnValue = default(T);
    int intEnumValue;
    if (Int32.TryParse(valueToParse, out intEnumValue))
    {
        if (Enum.IsDefined(typeof(T), intEnumValue))
        {
            returnValue = (T)(object)intEnumValue;
            return true;
        }
    }
    return false;
}