{

Generics, as it were, are passe to talk about these days. However, I found myself dealing with enumerations on Friday and was a little surprised there wasn't an approach to parsing these out in a more generic fashion. I scribbled the following, perhaps it will be of value to someone:

enum Test { 
    v1, 
    v2,
    v3   
}

public static T EnumParser<T>(string givenValue)
{
    return (T)Enum.Parse(typeof(T), givenValue, true);
}

//usage:
Test val = EnumParser<Test>("v1");

}