Enum.Parse(), surely a neater way?

Question

Say I have an enum,

public enum Colours
{
    Red,
    Blue
}

The only way I can see of parsing them is doing something like:

Answer 1

If I'm parsing a "trusted" enum, then I use Enum.Parse().
By "trusted" I mean, I know it will ALWAYS be a valid enum without ever erroring... ever!

But there are times when "you never know what you're gonna get", and for those times, you need to use a nullable return value. Since .net doesn't offer this baked in, you can roll your own. Here's my recipe:

public static TEnum? ParseEnum(string sEnumValue) where TEnum : struct
{
    TEnum eTemp;
    TEnum? eReturn = null;
    if (Enum.TryParse(sEnumValue, out eTemp) == true)
        eReturn = eTemp;
    return eReturn;
}

To use this method, call it like so:

eColor? SelectedColor = ParseEnum("Red");

Just add this method to a class you use to store your other commonly used utility functions.