>Hi,
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>Before I do the IF/ELSE, or SWITCH, I am wondering if I could macro expand in C#. Here is an example. I am passing a value of ParameterDirection as a string (e.g. 'Input', 'InputOutput', 'Output') I need to set ParameterDirection based on the passed value.
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>Here is the pseudo code:
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>string cDirection = 'Input';
>param.Direction = ParameterDirection. + 'cDirection';
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>I am pretty sure that the above syntax will not work.

It won't :-}

But is there way to make it work?

In general, no. But for enums you can use this:

string cDirection = "Input";
param.Direction= (ParameterDirection) Enum.Parse(typeof(ParameterDirection),  cDirection);