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I see the Enum.GetValues returns base Array type and Enum.GetNames returns a string array. But I don’t understand how this is very significant. For an enum anyways, the values are strings.
But, there is an associated problem. The DataGridView ComboBox column databinds to an enum if I give the DataSource = Enum.GetValues, but it doesn’t databind when I give it Enum.GetNames as a DataSource.
GetValues will return an Array of the underlying integer values for each item in the Enum.
GetNames will return a string array of the Names for the items in the enum.
The Array returned by GetValues implements IList while the string[] returned by GetNames does not, which explains the binding differences.