Question

I have the following method and enum:

public int GetRowType(string pk) 
    {
        return Convert.ToInt32(pk.Substring(2, 2));
    }


public enum CONTENT {
    Menu = 0,
    Article = 1,
    FavoritesList = 2,
    ContentBlock = 3,
    Topic = 6,
    List = 7
};

Here I am trying to check if the result of my method is equal to the value of the enum but I am getting an error:

GetRowType(content) == CONTENT.Topic

Can someone give me some advice on what I am doing wrong?

Gives me an error: Error    2   
Operator '==' cannot be applied to operands of type 'int' and 'Storage.Constants.CONTENT'

Answer 1

The whole idea is to work with the enum directly. so to fix up your method and return a enum instead of an integer:

public CONTENT GetRowType(string pk) 
{
    int temp = Convert.ToInt32(pk.Substring(2, 2));
    if (Enum.IsDefined(typeof(CONTENT), temp)) 
    { 
        return (CONTENT)temp;
    }
    else throw new IndexOutOfRangeException();
}