.net Custom Configuration How to case insensitive parse an enum ConfigurationProperty

Question

One of the ConfigurationProperty I have in my ConfigurationSection is an ENUM. When .net parses this enum string value from the config file, an exception will be thrown if the c

Answer 1

MyEnum.TryParse() has an IgnoreCase parameter, set it true.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd991317.aspx

UPDATE: Defining the configuration section like this should work

public class CustomConfigurationSection : ConfigurationSection
    {
      [ConfigurationProperty("myEnumProperty", DefaultValue = MyEnum.Item1, IsRequired = true)]
      public MyEnum SomeProperty
      {
        get
        {
          MyEnum tmp;
          return Enum.TryParse((string)this["myEnumProperty"],true,out tmp)?tmp:MyEnum.Item1;
        }
        set
        { this["myEnumProperty"] = value; }
      }
    }