The value parameter, optionally preceded or trailed by white space, must contain a string that is equal to the value of either the bool.TrueString or bool.FalseString field; otherwise, a FormatException is thrown. The comparison is ordinal and case-insensitive.

You can call the bool.TryParse(string, Boolean@) method to parse a string without having to handle the FormatException exception that is thrown if the parsing operation fails.

The following example demonstrates the bool.Parse(string) method.

using System;
public class BoolParse {
   public static void Main() {
      Boolean b = Boolean.Parse("  true  ");
      Console.WriteLine("\"  true  \" parses to \"{0}\".", b);
   }
}
   

The output is

" true " parses to "True".