My contribution to the Enum.TryParse methods for .NET 3.5

Update - Added a try catch for those times when someone passes in an invalid value.

public static class EnumExtentions
{
    #region Static Methods  /// <summary>
    /// The same signature as .NET 4.0
    /// </summary>
    /// <typeparam name="TEnum"></typeparam>
    /// <param name="value"></param>
    /// <param name="result"></param>
    /// <returns></returns>
    public static bool TryParse<TEnum>(this string value, out TEnum result)
        where TEnum : struct
    {
        // for .NET 4.0 replace with:
        // return Enum.TryParse<TEnum>(value, false, out result);
        return EnumExtentions.TryParse<TEnum>(value, false, out result);
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// The same signature as .NET 4.0
    /// </summary>
    /// <typeparam name="TEnum"></typeparam>
    /// <param name="value"></param>
    /// <param name="ignoreCase"></param>
    /// <param name="result"></param>
    /// <returns></returns>
    public static bool TryParse<TEnum>(this string value, bool ignoreCase, out TEnum result)
        where TEnum : struct
    {
        // for .NET 4.0 replace with:
        // return Enum.TryParse<TEnum>(value, false, out result);

        result = default(TEnum);
        try
        {
            Type typeOfTEnum = typeof(TEnum);
            StringComparison stringComparison = ignoreCase ? StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase : StringComparison.InvariantCulture;

            foreach (string item in Enum.GetNames(typeOfTEnum))
            {
                if (item.Equals(value, stringComparison))
                {
                    result = (TEnum)Enum.Parse(typeOfTEnum, value, ignoreCase);
                    return true;
                }
            }
            if (Enum.IsDefined(typeOfTEnum, Convert.ChangeType(value, (Enum.GetUnderlyingType(typeOfTEnum)))))
            {
                result = (TEnum)Enum.Parse(typeOfTEnum, value);
                return true;
            }
        }
        catch 
        {
            return false;
        }
        return false;
    }

    #endregion Static Methods  
}