Enum.Parse(), surely a neater way?
asp.net, c#, enums
Solution
Use `Enum.IsDefined()` first, to save yourself from wrapping in a try/catch. It will return a boolean value of whether or not the input is a valid member of that enum.
Problem
Say I have an enum, ``` public enum Colours { Red, Blue } ``` The only way I can see of parsing them is doing something like: ``` string colour = "Green"; var col = (Colours)Enum.Parse(typeOf(Colours),colour); ``` This will throw a System.ArgumentException because "Green" is not a member of the `Colours` enum. Now I really hate wrapping code in try/catch's, is there no neater way to do this that doesn't involve me iterating through each `Colours` enum, and doing a string comparison against `colour`?