How do I get the enum description value?

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I'm having an enum in which it has a description. i'm unable to get the description value. i managed to get the enum value but i want the value to be the description value.Any solutions?

What I have tried:

public enum FaqType
   {
       [Description("Internal")]
       Internal = 1,
       [Description("Website")]
       Website = 2,
       [Description("Web & Internal")]
       WebInternal = 3
   }

this is my entity in which requests and responses are handled.

[Description("Type")]
public string Type
{
    get
    {
        return ((Common.FaqType)TypeId).ToString();

    }
}

Posted 7-Nov-18 17:04pm

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Updated 11-Nov-18 4:19am

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M.Kamran Asim · Answer 1 · 2018-11-07T20:43:00

C#

public static string ToDescription(this System.Enum data)
        {
            var field = data.GetType().GetField(data.ToString());
            var desAttribute = field.GetCustomAttributes(typeof(DescriptionAttribute), false) as DescriptionAttribute[];

            if (desAttribute.Length > 0)
            {
                return desAttribute[0].Message;
            }
            return string.Empty;
        }

Where Description is Custom Attribute having Message property which you set in Constructor