Question

I’ve been searching for a while but didn’t find the solutions. I have an assembly in a GAC. I have to to load it using reflection. After that I need to get and address to Enum. But instead I can just get MemberInfo[]. I don’t understand how to convert MemberInfo[] to Enum.

I have code like this:

//test assembly contains 
public class MyClass
{
    public enum MyEnum 
    {
        MyVavue, 
        MyValue2
    }
}

Assembly s = Assembly.Load("test");
Type type = s.GetTypes()[1];
MemberInfo[] memberInfos = type.GetMembers(
    BindingFlags.Public | 
    BindingFlags.Static);

//I need to convert memberInfos to MyEnum
//and after that receive ---> MyEnum.MyValue <---  

Answer 1

You should simply use Enum.GetValues. That’s exactly what it does – use reflection to get the enum fields:

Assembly s = Assembly.Load("test");
Type type = s.GetTypes()[1];
object[] values = Enum.GetValues(type);
object myValue = values.First(v => v.ToString() == "MyValue");