Question

I want to have an enum as in:

enum FilterType
{
   Rigid = "Rigid",
   SoftGlow = "Soft / Glow",
   Ghost = "Ghost",
}

How to achieve this? Is there a better way to do this? It’s gonna be used for an instance of an object where it’s gonna be serialized/deserialized. It’s also gonna populate a dropdownlist.

Answer 1

using System.ComponentModel;   
enum FilterType
{
    [Description("Rigid")]
    Rigid,
    [Description("Soft / Glow")]
    SoftGlow,
    [Description("Ghost")]
    Ghost ,
}

You can get the value out like this

public static String GetEnumerationDescription(Enum e)
{
  Type type = e.GetType();
  FieldInfo fieldInfo = type.GetField(e.ToString());
  DescriptionAttribute[] da = (DescriptionAttribute[])(fieldInfo.GetCustomAttributes(typeof(DescriptionAttribute), false));
  if (da.Length > 0)
  {
    return da[0].Description;
  }
  return e.ToString();
}