Question

I often run into a situation where I want to have a set of key/value pairs. Here’s a pseudo code idea:

DataSet MyRequestStatus
{
  Accepted = "ACC",
  Rejected = "REJ"
}

Usage:

InsertIntoTable(MyRequestStatus.Accepted.ToString())

I want to be able to use the friendly “MyRequestStatus.Accepted”, but I want the ToString() to return the cryptic “ACC”, NOT “Accepted”. Bonus points, implicit conversion rather than having to call ToString().

I haven’t found an obvious way to achieve this with Enums. What do you suggest?

Answer 1

public static class MyRequestStatus
{
    public const string Accepted = "ACC",
                        Rejected = "REJ";
}