Question

I have some code that sets up a dictionary with some defualt values for an enum:

foreach (string status in Enum.GetNames(typeof(TargetStatusType)))
{
    dict.Add((TargetStatusType)Enum.Parse(typeof(TargetStatusType), status), 0);
}

Is there an easier way to do this, as it seems a bit messy.

I was hoping I could just do

foreach(TargetStatusType status in ?) ...

Thanks!

Answer 1

Use Enum.GetValues():

foreach (TargetStatusType type in Enum.GetValues(typeof(TargetStatusType)))

Note that although GetValues() is only declared to return Array, the foreach loop performs the cast for you automatically. Alternatively you could cast the result to TargetStatusType[] if you wanted to use it in a different loop where casting each value would be inconvenient.