add string value to enum

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Greeting All ,

I have this Enum type and I want to give a string value to criteria and value , how should I do ?

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public enum ItemsChoiceType1 {

    /// <remarks/>
    Criteria,

    /// <remarks/>
    Value,
}

I would like to convet ItemsChoiceType1 on string without adding any things to the enum type because it is provided by the API that I use
Please Help !

Posted 2-Apr-14 22:57pm

amiach

Updated 2-Apr-14 23:19pm

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Sanjay K. Gupta · Answer 1 · 2014-04-02T23:00:00

You can add Description attribute

C#

public enum ChartType : short
    {
        Pie = 1,
        Doughnut = 2,
        Column = 3,
        [Description("Column Stacked")]
        ColumnStacked = 4,
        Area = 5,
        [Description("Area Stacked")]
        AreaStacked = 6,
        [Description("Area Spline")]
        AreaSpline = 7,
        Bar = 8,
        [Description("Bar Stacked")]
        BarStacked = 9,
        Line = 10,
        Spline = 11
    }

You can get Description by below helper

public static class EnumExt
    {
        public static string Description(this Enum en)
        {
            string result = en.ToString();
            Type EnumType = en.GetType();

            FieldInfo fi = EnumType.GetField(result);
            var da = Attribute.GetCustomAttribute(fi, typeof(DescriptionAttribute)) as DescriptionAttribute;
            return (da != null ? da.Description : result);
        }
    }

C#

ChartType.BarStacked.Description()