PropertyConverter.EnumFromString(Type, String) Method
Definition
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Converts the string representation to a value of the specified enumeration type.
This API supports the product infrastructure and is not intended to be used directly from your code.
public:
static System::Object ^ EnumFromString(Type ^ enumType, System::String ^ value);
public static object EnumFromString (Type enumType, string value);
static member EnumFromString : Type * string -> obj
Public Shared Function EnumFromString (enumType As Type, value As String) As Object
Parameters
Returns
An enumeration of type enumType
.
Exceptions
enumType
or value
is null
.
enumType
is not an Enum.
-or-
value
is either an empty string ("") or contains only white spaces.
-or-
value
is a name, but not one of the named constants defined for the enumeration.
Remarks
The EnumFromString method is used to convert a string value to its equivalent enumeration value.
Note
This member supports the .NET Framework infrastructure and is not intended to be used directly from your code. To convert a string value to its equivalent enumeration value, use the Enum.Parse method.
Applies to
See also
.NET