Question

public enum WeightGoalStatus
{
    InProgress,
    Failed,
    Succeded
}

public static class WeightGoalStatusExtensions
{
    public static string ToLocalizedString(this WeightGoalStatus status)
    {
        return "Localizedstring";//should be code that queries a resource based on the value of the enum
    }
}

Is this possible?
also. good idea?
it’s basically for a razor view that I need this Resource lookup.cant be showing “INProgress” to the user.

Answer 1

Easy. And we actually do exactly this.

public static class WeightGoalStatusExtensions
{
    public static string ToLocalizedString(this WeightGoalStatus status)
    {
        switch (status)
        {
           case WeightGoalStatus.InProgress
              return Resources.WeightGoalStatus.InProgress_ToLocalizedString;
           // others
        }
    }
}

Just create a resource file as usual, being sure to set CustomTool to ResXFileCodeGenerator.

Also, make sure you set the culture info properly.