.NET String Enumeration
By admin on Feb 14, 2009 in .NET, Programming
Normally you cannot use string in enum. However you can bypass using a trick, as shown below.
/// <summary>
/// Response expected from the gateway
/// </summary>
public enum Response
{
/// <summary>
/// No respons expected, just return the result
/// </summary>
[StringValue("NONE")]
None,
/// <summary>
/// Error response
/// </summary>
[StringValue("ERROR")]
Error,
/// <summary>
/// Successful response
/// </summary>
[StringValue("OK")]
Ok
}
By writing a custom string attribute, using enum string is possible.
This is further described in CodeProject article here.
The only thing is that Reflection is used here, which may have performance implication.
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