Convert string or int to enum

Enum's a great, but you may be wondering how you can turn an integer or string value into the corresponding enum. For example you may have an api that's being sent XML or JSON, and then you need to turn one of the values within that into an enum to set on an object in your code.

Well it's very simple. If you have a string do this:

1YourEnum foo = (YourEnum) Enum.Parse(typeof(YourEnum), yourString);

or if you have an int do this (you could also just do the first example with a ToString() on the end.

1YourEnum foo = (YourEnum)yourInt;