Get enum from enum attribute

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Here’s a helper method that should point you in the right direction.

protected Als GetEnumByStringValueAttribute(string value)
{
    Type enumType = typeof(Als);
    foreach (Enum val in Enum.GetValues(enumType))
    {
        FieldInfo fi = enumType.GetField(val.ToString());
        StringValueAttribute[] attributes = (StringValueAttribute[])fi.GetCustomAttributes(
            typeof(StringValueAttribute), false);
        StringValueAttribute attr = attributes[0];
        if (attr.Value == value)
        {
            return (Als)val;
        }
    }
    throw new ArgumentException("The value '" + value + "' is not supported.");
}

And to call it, just do the following:

Als result = this.GetEnumByStringValueAttribute<Als>(ComboBox.SelectedValue);

This probably isn’t the best solution though as it’s tied to Als and you’ll probably want to make this code re-usable. What you’ll probably want to strip out the code from my solution to return you the attribute value and then just use Enum.Parse as you are doing in your question.

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