Question

Hi I am using enums converted to a string with a switch but it doesn’t work. It gives compilation error: Cannot implicitly convert type ‘userControl_commontop.UserType’ to ‘string’

The code is:

private void CommonTopChangesnew(string usertype)
{

    switch (usertype.Trim().ToUpper())
    {
        case UserType.NORMAL :
            hlkSAD.Enabled = false;
            hlkMRTQuery.Enabled = false;
            hlkReqViewer.Enabled = false;
            hlkSendnotif.Enabled = false;
            break;
        case UserType.POWER :
            hlkSAD.Enabled = false;
            hlkReqViewer.Enabled = false;
            hlkSendnotif.Enabled = false;
            break;
    }
}

enum UserType
{
    NORMAL,
    POWER,
    ADMINISTRATOR
}

Answer 1

You could convert the userType parameter in to an enum value using this function:

object Enum.Parse(System.Type enumType, string value, bool ignoreCase);

as

UserType utEnum =  Enum.Parse(UserType, userType, true);

and then you can call your switch statement as:

switch (utEnum)
    { ... }