Creating user friendly strings for enum values

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Creating user friendly strings for enum values

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SuperJason 2 months, 2 days ago

ytechie.com — I’ll show you how to create a custom attribute for enum values to assign extra information to an enum. In this case, we’ll be associating a user friendly display name.

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Interesting. I've been using Phil Haack's approach: http://haacked.com/archive/2005/09/24/10334.aspx. It turns camel cased enum values into capitalized phrases.

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