Parsing a String to an Enum

Revolutionize Your Business With Generative AI

From product design and software development to virtual agents, content creation, and reporting, GenAI is transforming business. Our AI experts help you unlock GenAI’s full potential and drive growth.

Let’s Get Started

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).