It’s common to have description attributes on Enum types. This allows adding a longer description string for each Enum value. In one of my recent projects, I have a Web API that needs to accept this description value from the JSON request body and map to the correct Enum value. In this post, I’m going … [Read more…]
I come across a bug in a method we have in our projects at work. The method takes a generic type and then it checks if the type is enum before it applies further logic to it. If the type is not an enum, it will throw an ArgumentException. The method is similar to the … [Read more…]
I have a client generated enum class with values already defined. I have to populate a dropdown list with all the enum values with a different order than the order they are declared in. First, I thought its as simple as just rearranging the order they are declared in to the order I need and … [Read more…]
I’ve worked in teams that do enums in 2 different ways. One is storing enums as lookup tables in the DB. The other is to keep it in code. I’m going to show how they are used and my preferred way. Disclaimer, this is just a personal preference. There are pros and cons in both … [Read more…]
I’m going to show how to get the value from the Description attribute on each enum. We have the following enum as an example public enum MonthOfYear { [Description(“First month of the year”)] January, [Description(“Second month of the year”)] February, [Description(“Third month of the year”)] March // … and so on } If you use … [Read more…]
I’m working on a side project where I use Entity Framework 6 for my data layer. I need to store an enum in the database as string rather than integer. This is because I don’t like having enum columns in database without meaningful value. Plus this also makes it easier to know what that enum … [Read more…]