Comments on Juri's TechBlog: String enumerations in C#

Hi, thanks. Yes I wanted to create such an enumera...

2009-05-21T22:40:43.524+02:00

Hi,
thanks. Yes I wanted to create such an enumeration already multiple times but then due to time pressure I always just used string constants, which often are also enough.

Hello, nice post. Thats really a good idea and it ...

2009-05-21T22:03:29.404+02:00

Hello,
nice post. Thats really a good idea and it would have been help full many times in the past... because I use enumerations in many places.

Yes I know, that's true. But in that case you'll g...

2009-05-21T11:53:39.004+02:00

Yes I know, that's true. But in that case you'll get basically just the name of the enumeration variable printed out. So the names in my case would be "C" and "M", not really expressive, but yes you could do that.
But if you want to choose more expressive names (which is usually always better, then you have to go for the approach I described.
For your example with the colors, the ToString() is perfectly suited.

Greets to Australia :)

hm... you can have string enumerations in C# just...

2009-05-21T11:07:15.737+02:00

hm...
you can have string enumerations in C#

just call ToString() on that enum variable

EXAMPLE
enum Colors { Red, Green, Blue, Yellow };
Colors x = Colors.Red;
Console.WriteLine("Color: " + x);
Console.WriteLine("Color: " + Colors.Red);

both return the string instance
WriteLine calls ToString implicit