Question

I want to declare several constant objects that each have two subobjects, and I’d like to store these in an enum for organizational purposes.

Is it possible to do something like this in C#?

enum Car
{
  carA = { 'ford', 'red' }
  carB = { 'bmw', 'black' }
  carC = { 'toyota', 'white' }
}

Answer 1

No, the C# language does not allow for that.

You can create a

Dictionary<Car, List<string>> cars;

You would add entries to it like

cars = new Dictionary<Car, List<String>>();
cars.Add(Car.carA, new List<String>() { "ford", "red" });

Note though that if you are mixing the concept of “ford” and “red”, you may want to consider creating an object to represent that thing, e.g.

public class CarDetails
{
    public string Maker { get; set; }
    public string Color { get; set; }
}

Then, your Dictionary object would look like

Dictionary<Car, CarDetails> cars;
cars = new Dictionary<Car.carA, CarDetails>();

cars.Add(Car.carA, new CarDetails() { Maker = "ford", Color = "red" });