Question

Is there any good way to convert strings like ‘xlSum’, ‘xlAverage’, and ‘xlCount’ into the value they have under Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.XlConsolidationFunction?

I guess reflection would be slow (if its possible). There are about 10 of these constant values. I was trying to avoid a large switch statement if possible.

Answer 1

This is an enum so you should be able to use

using Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel;  XlConslidationFunction func = (XlConsolidationFunction)                                Enum.Parse( typeof(XlConsolidationFunction),                                            stringVal );