Question

Hi Is there a way to declare an enum or to customize the way of declaring an enum which returns an object in C#?

private enum testEnum
{ 
    firstname =1 
    ,lastname = 2
} 

and if we want to return the names rather than 1 and 2 ?
like testEnum.firstname returns 1 .

I want to declare an enum to return objects like in Java . is it possible?

Answer 1

You can do this:

public class NameEnum
{
    static NameEnum()
    {
        FirstName = new NameEnum("FirstName");
        LastName = new NameEnum("LastName");
    }

    public static NameEnum FirstName { get; private set; }
    public static NameEnum LastName { get; private set; }

    private NameEnum(string name)
    {
        this.Name = name;
    }

    public string Name { get; private set; }
}

Is that close enough?