I don't normally regurgitate other blogger's posts like a headless chicken, but in this case it's worth mentioning. Stephen , a colleague of mine, and a picky sod (who puts their enums in alphabetical order? - no serious comments on that remark...
David Findley writes about how he wishes we had a generic Parse method on the Enum class in .NET 2.0. Though I agree in principle, it's actually quite trivial to create a generic static class with a Parse method, which alleviates some of the pain. Here...