Enum.Parse

I had this issue, in which in one of my C# class, I had a enum type. Then I wanted to send a string to a method, which will populate this object. The problem was that the enum type was an integer, and I was passing a string down to the object.

    1 public enum ProductTypeEnum : int 

    2 {

    3     blue = 10,

    4     red = 20,

    5     green = 30

    6 } 

Here is the class that I was using to populate with values:

    1 public void GetDiscountTest_BLUE_Preferred()

    2 {

    3     OrderDetail inOrder = new OrderDetail();

    4     inOrder.ProductType = (Int32) ProductTypeEnum.blue;

    5     inOrder.Quantity = 100;

Now, I wanted to replace the code with something like this:

    1 public void GetDiscountTest_BLUE_Preferred(string sColorName)

    2 {

    3     OrderDetail inOrder = new OrderDetail();

    4     inOrder.ProductType = ConvertToEnum(sColorName);

    5     inOrder.Quantity = 100;

Here is the code to accomplish that:

    1 public void WorkingDiscount(string sColorName)

    2 {

    3     OrderDetail inOrder = new OrderDetail();

    4     inOrder.ProductType = (Int32)Enum.Parse(typeof(ProductTypeEnum), sColorName);

    5     inOrder.Quantity = 100;

now I will remember this.