C#, StringToEnum, can I make it a generic function out of this

Question

I'd like to have a simple helper method for converting a string to an Enum. Something like the following, but it doesn't like T as the first argument in the Enum.Parse. The error is T is a Type Parameter but is used like a variable.

public static T StringToEnum<T>(String value)
        {
            return (T) Enum.Parse(T,value,true) ;
        }

Answer 1

Try this:

public static T StringToEnum<T>(String value)
{
     return (T)Enum.Parse(typeof(T), value, true);
}

Answer 2

public static T StringToEnum<T>(String value)
{
    return (T) Enum.Parse(typeof(T),value,true) ;
}

What you were doing is like using 'int' as a Type, but it is not a Type object. To get the Type object, you would use typeof(int).