Question

In order to bind a ‘friendly’ enum I follow this link

Databinding an enum property to a ComboBox in WPF

but I have this error:Unable to create ‘Type’ from the ‘Status’ string

this is my code behind

    public enum Status
    {
        [Description("Available.")]
        Available,
        [Description("Not here right now.")]
        Away,
        [Description("I don't have time right now.")]
        Busy
    }


    public Status CurrentStatus { get; set; }


    public MainWindow()
    {
        InitializeComponent();

    }

and this is my XAML

<Grid>
    <ComboBox 
        ItemsSource="{Binding Source={my:Enumeration {x:Type Status}}}" 
        DisplayMemberPath="Description" 
        SelectedValue="{Binding CurrentStatus}"  
        SelectedValuePath="Value"  />

</Grid>

what’s I wrong?

thanks

Answer 1

You are missing a namespace. If your code is in a namespace called MyProject then you need to add a reference to that at the top of your xaml file:

    <xmlns:proj="clr-namespace:MyProject" />

and then prefix your type accordingly:

    ItemsSource="{Binding Source={my:Enumeration {x:Type proj:Status}}}" 

EDIT: looking at your existing markup, using my:Status might be enough.