C#

Marcos Hernandez wrote:

I dont need to show them just i need to read image headers to get info about size, bitdepth, etc...

MVPenn wrote:

I'm not sure if I should be using the enum type to populate a list property on a custom web control.

MVPenn wrote:

Is there a better solution to accomplish this?

public string[] Diseases = new string[] { "Hepatitis A", "Hepatitis B" };

public static string EnumHelper(Enum value)
{
  // Set the description to the name of the enumeration.
  // That way, if there's no Description attribute, we still
  // have a description to return.
  description = value.ToString();

  MemberInfo[] mi = value.GetType().GetMember(value.ToString());
  if (mi != null && mi.Length > 0)
  {
    object[] att = mi[0].GetCustomAttributes(typeof(Description), false);
    if (att != null  && att.Length > 0)
      description = ((Description)att[0]).Text;
  }
  return description;
}

public enum Diseases
{
  [Description("Hepatitis A")]
  HepatitisA,
  Eczema,
}

string hepA = EnumHelper(Diseases.HepatitisA);

string ex = EnumHelper(Diseases.Eczema);

MVPenn wrote:

public enum Diseases { Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, ...}
public enum fonts {Arial Black, Arial Narrow, Arial, ...}