Something you probably don't know about enums in C#

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Something you probably don't know about enums in C#

published 8 months, 12 days ago, submitted by

HoolieMan 8 months, 12 days ago

blog.spontaneouspublicity.com — Do you think the use of an enum in your code is limiting the possible values that can be used? Think again. Maybe we need to learn to be more careful about checking our enums for valid values.

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I'm 99% sure its this way so that you can logical-OR together enum values and store the result with a variable of the enum's type.

posted by

yesthatmcgurk 8 months, 12 days ago

Yeah, the logical-OR scenario seems like the best explanation. It would be nice if they limited this behavior only to enums with the [Flags] attribute just to make things clearer for enums which are not meant to be OR'd together.

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HoolieMan 8 months, 12 days ago

Interesting. I smell an FxCop rule coming.

posted by senfo 8 months, 12 days ago

I was googling a bit. Do you know the 'FlagsAttribute' that you can put on top of an enum defenition?
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.flagsattribute.aspx

posted by

TweeZz 8 months, 10 days ago

see the first comment, tweezz.

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yesthatmcgurk 7 months, 27 days ago