Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/enumtoushort' into dev

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#	CHANGELOG.md

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.
 ## [Unreleased]
  - Added Yield extension to return a single-item enumerable for an object.
  - Added util method for removing BOM characters from UTF8 data
+ - Added extension method to convert from bool to ushort and back
+ - Added extension method to cast enums to ushort value
 
 ## [3.0.0] - 2018-04-23
 ### Added

ICD.Common.Utils/Extensions/EnumExtensions.cs

@@ -52,5 +52,13 @@ namespace ICD.Common.Utils.Extensions
 			int num = (int)(object)value;
 			return ((int)(object)extends & num) == num;
 		}
+
+		public static ushort ToUShort(this Enum extends)
+		{
+			if (extends == null)
+				throw new ArgumentNullException("extends");
+
+			return (ushort)(object)extends;
+		}
 	}
 }