AnchorStyles conversion

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For a bitwise type like AnchorStyles the .NET runtime provides an easy way
to convert this to a string (like "Top, Left"), but is there an easy way to
convert it back again ? I've written my own method (see below) to do it but
it strikes me that there may be a much simpler way !

protected static AnchorStyles DeserializeAnchor(string a)
{
AnchorStyles retval = AnchorStyles.None;
if (a != "None")
{
if (a.IndexOf("Top") > -1) retval = retval | AnchorStyles.Top;
if (a.IndexOf("Bottom") > -1) retval = retval | AnchorStyles.Bottom;
if (a.IndexOf("Left") > -1) retval = retval | AnchorStyles.Left;
if (a.IndexOf("Right") > -1) retval = retval | AnchorStyles.Right;
}
return retval;
}
 
* "JezB said:
For a bitwise type like AnchorStyles the .NET runtime provides an easy way
to convert this to a string (like "Top, Left"), but is there an easy way to
convert it back again ? I've written my own method (see below) to do it but
it strikes me that there may be a much simpler way !
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Have a look at 'Enum.Parse'.
 
How about serializing and deserializing types like Point and Size ?
Currently I split these into pairs of digits separated by a comma and when
deserializing I parse the string into two Ints to reconstruct the Point or
Size, but as for Enums I suspect there is a neater way (having serialized
just by using the ToString() method).
 
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