.net Custom Configuration How to case insensitive parse an enum ConfigurationProperty

Question

One of the ConfigurationProperty I have in my ConfigurationSection is an ENUM. When .net parses this enum string value from the config file, an exception will be thrown if the c

Answer 1

Try using this:

Enum.Parse(enum_type, string_value, true);

Last param set to true tells to ignore string casing when parsing.