how to access enum values

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Hi,
i am facing a problem to access enum values.

i made an enum

enum caroptions
{
maruti alto,
swift lx,
xylo xuv
};
but while i am acessing values in intellisense is coming
for maruti alto is only maruti
and swift lx is only swift.

for all values after space is not coming.

i am accessing like on button click event

caroptions option = option.(name of values inside enum)

please help me.

Posted 2-Jan-14 18:22pm

bunty swapnil

Updated 2-Jan-14 18:23pm

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BillWoodruff · Answer 1 · 2014-01-02T19:26:00

As I am sure you realize by now, Enum labels cannot use white-space, but, there is a way you can associate descriptive text with each Enum element:

C#

// requires: using System.ComponentModel;

enum caroptions
{
    [Description("maruti alto")]
    maruti,
    [Description("swift lx")]
    swift,
    [Description("xylo xuv")]
    xylo
}

However, accessing that descriptive text at run-time requires using System.Reflection; do you really want to be paying the price of using code like this:

C#

FieldInfo fi = caroptions.maruti.GetType().GetField(caroptions.maruti.ToString());

string description = ((DescriptionAttribute[]) fi.GetCustomAttributes(typeof (DescriptionAttribute), false))[0].Description;

Yes, of course you could package that code up in a method, or make it into an extension method, and reduce its verbosity, but you are still doing some heavy-lifting, imho, for a small pay-off.

Bojjaiah · Answer 2 · 2014-01-02T18:30:00

Solution 1

hi try this

C#

enum caroptions
 {
 maruti_alto,
 swift_lx,
 xylo_xuv
 };

caroptions option = option.maruti_alto;

see MSDN[^]

Posted 2-Jan-14 18:30pm

Bojjaiah

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TrushnaK 3-Jan-14 0:44am

right....

TrushnaK · Answer 3 · 2014-01-02T18:44:00

Solution 3

don't give space in your enum

refer this:- [^]

Posted 2-Jan-14 18:44pm

TrushnaK

Sibasisjena · Answer 4 · 2014-01-02T18:42:00

Solution 2

Hi Bunty,

Please go through these links
Link1[^]

Link2[^]

Posted 2-Jan-14 18:42pm

Sibasisjena

Karthik_Mahalingam · Answer 5 · 2014-01-02T18:54:00

Solution 4

try like this..

C#

enum caroptions
{
maruti =1,
swift =2,
xylo= 3
};

we can assign only integral value to the enum.
dont give space to it.

or try as Bojjaiah posted.

have a look on enums from here.
enums[^]
enums[^]
Enums in C#[^]

Posted 2-Jan-14 18:54pm

Karthik_Mahalingam