Question

So I want to have a property getter that returns an enum value based on an enum value of a different type without having to resort to a long switch statement. Is there a way to match up the two enum lists using an index or values?

public enum LanguageName
    {
        Arabic,
        Chinese,
        Dutch,
        English,
        Farsi,
        French,
        Hindi,
        Indonesian,
        Portuguese,
        Spanish,
        Urdu
    }

    public enum LanguageISOCode
    {
        ara,
        zho,
        dut,
        eng,
        fas,
        fre,
        hin,
        ind,
        por,
        spa,
        urd
    }

public class language
{
    public language()
    {
    }

    public LanguageName Name
    {
        get
        {
           // get the Name enum based on the Code enum
        }
        set;
    }

    public LanguageISOCode Code
    {
        get;
        set;
    }
}

Answer 1

You can explicitly declare that one enum value is equal to another, like so:

public enum LanguageName
{
    Arabic,
    Chinese,
    Dutch,
    ...
}

public enum LanguageISOCode
{
    ara = LanguageName.Arabic,
    zho = LanguageName.Chinese,
    dut = LanguageName.Dutch,
    ...
 }

Which will then let you cast between them:

 LanguageISOCode codeValue = LanguageISOCode.ara;

 LanguageName name = (LanguageName)(int)codeValue;

or

 LanguageName nameValue = LanguageName.Arabic;

 LanguageISOCode = (LanguageISOCode)(int)nameValue;

While the above should answer your explicit question, you should have a look at the System.Globalization.CultureInfo class. It provides quite a bit of functionality regarding various cultures.