Question

I am trying to write a generic method that can take any enum of type int and be able to convert it to its int value. For example:

public int GetIntValue(Enum enumValue) {
    return (int)enumValue;
}

Here is one way that I have accomplished this, but it seems like there is a better way:

public static int ToInt(this Enum value) {
    return (int) Enum.Parse(value.GetType(), Enum.GetName(value.GetType(), value));
}

Any ideas?

Answer 1

You mostly had it with example 2 – you should be able to do this:

public static int ToInt(this Enum value)
{
    return Convert.ToInt32(value);
}