Question

since i can not have space in enum and i am trying to do something like this but seems like does not like it….

public enum EnumState
{
    NewYork,
    NewMexico
}


public EnumState State
    {
        get
        {
            return EnumState ;
        }
        set
        {
            if (EnumState .ToString() == "NewYork".ToString())
            {
                value = "New York".ToString();
                EnumState = value;
            }
        }
    }

Answer 1

I have seen this generally handled by putting a [StringValue("New York")] attribute on the enum members. A quick google search returns this blog post, which has a pretty good way of doing it.

Basically make the attribute class:

public class StringValueAttribute : Attribute {

    public string StringValue { get; protected set; }

    public StringValueAttribute(string value) {
        this.StringValue = value;
    }
}

And an extension method to access it:

   public static string GetStringValue(this Enum value) {
        // Get the type
        Type type = value.GetType();

        // Get fieldinfo for this type
        FieldInfo fieldInfo = type.GetField(value.ToString());

        // Get the stringvalue attributes
        StringValueAttribute[] attribs = fieldInfo.GetCustomAttributes(
            typeof(StringValueAttribute), false) as StringValueAttribute[];

        // Return the first if there was a match, or enum value if no match
        return attribs.Length > 0 ? attribs[0].StringValue : value.ToString();
    }

Then your enum would look like this:

public enum EnumState{
  [StringValue("New York")]
  NewYork,
  [StringValue("New Mexico")]
  NewMexico,
}

and you can just use myState.GetStringValue();