Updated! How to retrieve an Enum member given its name
To retrieve an Enum member given its name, use the Parse method of the Enum class, and cast the result to your Enum type:
MyEnumVal = CType(System.Enum.Parse(GetType(MyEnum), "gamma"), MyEnum)
Debug.WriteLine(MyEnumVal.ToString()) ' The output is "gamma"
Previous code:
To retrieve an Enum member given its name, use the ConvertFrom() method of the TypeConverter class and cast the result to your Enum type:
MyEnumVal = CType(TypeDescriptor.GetConverter(MyEnumVal).ConvertFrom("gamma"), MyEnum)
Debug.WriteLine(MyEnumVal.ToString()) ' The output is "gamma"
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