Question

Can you pass a standard c# enum as a parameter?

For example:

enum e1 {     //... }  enum e2 {     //... }  public void test() {     myFunc( e1 );     myFunc( e2 ); }  public void myFunc( Enum e ) {     // Iterate through all the values in e } 

By doing this I hope to retrieve all the names within any given enum. What would the Iteration code look like?

Answer 1

This!

        public void Foo(Enum e)         {             var names = Enum.GetNames(e.GetType());              foreach (var name in names)             {                 // do something!             }         }    

EDIT: My bad, you did say iterate.

Note: I know I could just do the GetNames() call in my foreach statement, but I prefer to assign that type of thing to a method call first, as it’s handy for debugging.