Am I being blind, or does the .NET framework not provide any kind of ranged integer class? That is, a type that would prevent you setting a value outside some given bounds that are not the full range of the basic data type. For example, an integer type that would restrict its values to between 1 and 100. Showing my age here, but back in ’93, I remember using that sort of thing in Modula-2 (eeek!), but I’ve not seen explicit framework / language support for it since.
Am I just missing something, or is it a case of “it’s so simple to make your own that the framework doesn’t bother”?
Cheers.
You’re not missing anything – unless enums fit your case1) – it doesn’t exist. Roll your own.
1) And notice that enums actually don’t enforce a valid enum value because that would preclude of using enums for combined flags.