Question

I have a UserControl that I built that has properties which are defined in the xaml like this:

<Repeater:JointScoringGrid x:Name="PIPLeftErosionsRepeater" 
            TabName="PIP" 
            Header="Erosion"
            ControlNamePrefix="Left"
            ScoringType="Erosions">

Then, in my code behind I have logic centered around the ScoringType. Currently I’m checking which ScoringType the Grid is by evaluating the string (i.e. ScoringType.ToUpper().Equals("EROSIONS") ) which works, but it’s not as clean as I’d like it to be. What I would rather do is use an enumeration, but use the name in the xaml rather than the numeric value (e.g. I want to use something like ScoringType="Enum.Erosions" instead of ScoringType="0" to make the xaml more readable). Can this be accomplished?

Answer 1

Just change the type of the property to the enum type, it should automatically parse the string to the enum value. (e.g. HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" works, just an enum property)