title: Convert string to Brushes/Brush color name in C#
body: <p>I have a configuration file where a developer can specify a text color by passing in a string:</p>
  
  <pre><code> &lt;text value="Hello, World" color="Red"/&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Rather than have a gigantic switch statement look for all of the possible colors, it'd be nice to just use the properties in the class System.Drawing.Brushes instead so internally I can say something like:</p>
  
  <pre><code> Brush color = Brushes.Black;   // Default
  
   // later on...
   this.color = (Brush)Enum.Parse(typeof(Brush), prasedValue("color"));
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Except that the values in Brush/Brushes aren't enums.  So Enum.Parse gives me no joy.  Suggestions?</p>