DotNetKicks.com - Stories tagged with Enum

Design Guidelines Update: Enum Design

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 23:03:37 GMT

This is an older post, but still valid today. "This is a recent update to the Design Guidelines. One of the most interesting additions is the section about adding values to enums (at the end of the section). This was one of the guidelines were getting an agreement across the whole company was quite challenging. Kit (frequent poster to the BCL Team Blog) spent days getting consensus for the guideline."

C#: Enhance Enums using Extension Methods

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:01:02 GMT

Extension Methods are one of the coolest features that have been added in .NET 3.5. I've heard arguments that there is no reason to use them, and the only reason Microsoft added them is to enable the ability to buid LINQ. Well, I do not entirely agree with that statement; in fact, I have found a cool way to use Extension Methods to enhance the System.Enum object since it cannot be inherited. Even though Enum can not be inherited, it can be extended using Extension Methods. Here's the code to an Extension Method that extends the LocalizationMarket Enum with the ToDescriptionString() method that returns the DescriptionAttributes value for the given enum value.

Data Binding an Enum with Descriptions

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:47:31 GMT

Finally a SIMPLE, straight-forward, well thought out way to do DataBinding with an Enum.

Validate integer value before casting it to an Enum type

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 04:40:34 GMT

There is one thing you should watch out for when using enumerations. You can cast any integer to an Enum type and you will not get an exception message.

Generic Enum Parsing with Extension Methods

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 05:27:54 GMT

A nice use of the .net 3.5 Extension Methods feature that allows you to easily parse a string and get back the Enum value.

A strongly-typed combobox control for enum values

Sun, 16 Sep 2007 00:15:44 GMT

... or why do we need the "where T: enum" generic constraint. Kirill Osenkov posts a working sample of a combobox for choosing a value from enum's available values. It is automatically filled with values of the enumeration and has a strongly typed Value property.

My new little friend, Enum<T>

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:16:01 GMT

Some description of a help class for working with Enumerations.

XmlEnumAttribute extrahieren

Thu, 02 Aug 2007 13:57:14 GMT

Instruction on how to extract an XmlAttribute from a Member, in particular the XmlEnumAttribute from a enum member.

Checking a value against an Enum (Enum.IsDefined)

Thu, 14 Jun 2007 11:29:52 GMT

This will check to see if a value (string or int) is a match for a enum.

Generics without Collections, Part 3

Mon, 19 Feb 2007 23:31:01 GMT

Using generics for things other than creating collections (Enums this time). Advanced generics use

Parsing Enum strings in .NET

Sun, 31 Dec 2006 14:31:02 GMT

A quick and easy tip for converting strings back to Enum types.

Dustin Campbell: Giving Enums a Little Love

Thu, 31 Aug 2006 11:31:01 GMT

Dustin Campbell (Developer Express' Senior "Whipping Boy") discusses improvements that should be made in order to round out the Enumeration data type in .NET (to provide for both increased functionality and improved readability of code that uses enums).

Generic Parse method on Enum

Fri, 07 Jul 2006 08:11:03 GMT

A nice little generic enum parser utility class