[Browsable(false),BusinessFieldDisplayInEditor(),Description("ACTIONTYPECODE"),DesignerSerializationVisibility(DesignerSerializationVisibility.Hidden)]
public InspectionType ACTIONTYPECODE
{
   get
   {
      return (InspectionType)this.CurrentRow["ACTIONTYPECODE"];
   }
   set
   {
      this.CurrentRow["ACTIONTYPECODE"] = value;
   }
}

and here is the enum:

public enum InspectionType
{
   Foo= 0,
   Bar= 1,
   Zip= 2
}

Nothing too complex.  Stepping through the cose I can assign a value to ACTIONTYPECODE without issue.  But when I hit the 'Get' I end up with this error:

Cannot unbox 'this.CurrentRow["ACTIONTYPECODE"]' as a 'InspectionType'

Now this would make sense to me since the field seems to be stored as a string and last time I tried I had to do something like this: (InspectionType)Enum.Parse(typeof(InspectionType), "Foo"); to cast a string as an enum.  What am I screwing up?

[Browsable(false),BusinessFieldDisplayInEditor(),Description("ACTIONTYPECODE"),DesignerSerializationVisibility(DesignerSerializationVisibility.Hidden)]
public InspectionType ACTIONTYPECODE
{
   get
   {
      return (InspectionType)Enum.Parse(typeof(InspectionType), this.CurrentRow["ACTIONTYPECODE"] ); 
   }
   set
   {
      this.CurrentRow["ACTIONTYPECODE"] = value;
   }
}

This works thus far, I'd just like to know if there is something I'm missing or some larger problem. 
-Thanks