Parsing a String to an Enum

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Here is a generic extension method to get back an enum value from a string. It improves upon the Enum.Parse method by doing the following: 1) it encapsulates the cast of the value to the enum type; 2) supports an optional case-insensitive search; and 3) returns a boolean to indicate success or failure (rather than throw an exception).