Question

I have a property on my customer object, say gender, based on an enum.

How do I set the enum property on the object based on a dropdownlist.selectedValue?

Answer 1

You can get the list of Enum names using something like this:

string[] genderList = Enum.GetNames(typeof(gender));

from there, just populate the drop down list

to parse it back to the enum type…

Gender gender = (Gender)Enum.Parse(typeof(Gender), ddl.SelectedValue);