How to get enum value by keyname

Question

public enum aa{ a1=1,a2=2,a3=6,...,a100=203}

How to get value like this

string att=GetFromDatabase("attribute");    //this return a1 or a2 ...
Enum.GetValue(att);

Answer 1

Something like this should do the trick:

aa attEnum = (aa)Enum.Parse(typeof(aa), att);

Go to http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.enum.parse.aspx for more details.

Answer 2

Solution

string name = GetFromDatabase("attribute");
Enum.Parse(typeof(aa),name);

Answer 3

Use Enum.Parse

string att=GetFromDatabase("attribute");    //this return a1 or a2 ...
Enum.Parse(typeof(aa), att);