Question

I’m always confused which kind of enumeration I should use. A hashtable, an enum, a struct a dictionary, an array (how oldschool), static strings…

Instead of using strings in my code I want to use a beautiful enum like so:

public enum MyConfigs
{
    Configuration1,
    Configuration2
}

Problem is that I don’t always want to convert my enum toString() as I’m not interested in the index representation of the enum.

What is the best way to represent a public enumeration of string based values?
In the end I would love to end up with using MyConfigs.Configuration1 where needed in my code.

Answer 1

public static class MyConfigs
{
    public const string Configuration1 = "foo",
                        Configuration2 = "bar"
}

This is then pretty-much identical to how enums are implemented (ignoring the whole “it must be an integer” thing).