how to fill a ddl with enum description

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Hi, Below is a enum i created.

C#

public enum DialEntries
      {
          [Description("LastName + FirstName or FirstName + LastName")] LastNameFirstNameorFirstNameLastName,
          [Description("LastName + FirstName")]LastNameFirstName
      }

Now i want to fill a ddl with the description fo the enum like this

C#

strHTML.Append("<select id='ddlDialEntries' name='ddlDialEntries'>");
strHTML.Append("<option value=" + ServiceAssignmentModel.DialEntries.LastNameFirstName + "> " + ServiceAssignmentModel.DialEntries.LastNameFirstName + "</option>");
strHTML.Append("<option value=" + ServiceAssignmentModel.DialEntries.LastNameFirstNameorFirstNameLastName + "> " + ServiceAssignmentModel.DialEntries.LastNameFirstNameorFirstNameLastName + "</option>");
                strHTML.Append("</select>");
                return strHTML.ToString();

Where the displayed text should be the description.. Pls help

Posted 25-Mar-13 1:16am

Arjun Menon U.K

Updated 25-Mar-13 1:20am

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Arjun Menon U.K 25-Mar-13 7:29am

strHTML.Append("<select id='ddlDialEntries' name='ddlDialEntries'>");

FieldInfo fi = ServiceAssignmentModel.DialEntries.LastNameFirstName.GetType().GetField(ServiceAssignmentModel.DialEntries.LastNameFirstName.ToString());

DescriptionAttribute[] attributes =
(DescriptionAttribute[])fi.GetCustomAttributes(typeof(DescriptionAttribute), false);

if (attributes != null && attributes.Length > 0)
description= attributes[0].Description;
else
description= ServiceAssignmentModel.DialEntries.LastNameFirstName.ToString();

strHTML.Append("<option value=" + ServiceAssignmentModel.DialEntries.LastNameFirstName + "> " + description + "</option>");

fi = ServiceAssignmentModel.DialEntries.LastNameFirstNameorFirstNameLastName.GetType().GetField(ServiceAssignmentModel.DialEntries.LastNameFirstNameorFirstNameLastName.ToString());

attributes =(DescriptionAttribute[])fi.GetCustomAttributes(typeof(DescriptionAttribute), false);

if (attributes != null && attributes.Length > 0)
description = attributes[0].Description;
else
description= ServiceAssignmentModel.DialEntries.LastNameFirstNameorFirstNameLastName.ToString();

strHTML.Append("<option value=" + ServiceAssignmentModel.DialEntries.LastNameFirstNameorFirstNameLastName + "> " + description1 + "</option>");

strHTML.Append("</select>");
return strHTML.ToString();

I was able to achieve with the code above... but am not sure its a good method or not??

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OriginalGriff · Accepted Answer · 2013-03-25T01:26:00

Solution 1

See here: Human readable strings for enum elements[^]

Posted 25-Mar-13 1:26am

OriginalGriff