recurse through members of an enum

[Laszlo Szijarto]

What's the best way to recurse through the members of an enum?

I want to take an enum and dump into a ListBox the enum's names.

Thank you,
Laszlo

[William Stacey]

Re: recurse through members of an enum

Console.WriteLi ne("The values of the Colors Enum are:");
foreach(string s in Enum.GetNames(t ypeof(Colors)))
Console.WriteLi ne(s);

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William Stacey, DNS MVP

"Laszlo Szijarto" <lszijarto@nosp am.mrdoc.cc> wrote in message
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> What's the best way to recurse through the members of an enum?
>
> I want to take an enum and dump into a ListBox the enum's names.
>
> Thank you,
> Laszlo
>
>[/color]

[Alvin Bruney]

Re: recurse through members of an enum

I don't think this is possible since an enum is a type. You can iterate thru
collections which implement ienumerable, but an enum is not a collection.

"Laszlo Szijarto" <lszijarto@nosp am.mrdoc.cc> wrote in message
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> What's the best way to recurse through the members of an enum?
>
> I want to take an enum and dump into a ListBox the enum's names.
>
> Thank you,
> Laszlo
>
>[/color]

[Michael Bray]

Re: recurse through members of an enum

"Alvin Bruney" <vapordan_spam_ me_not@hotmail_ no_spamhotmail. com> wrote
in news:uLYIhSgjDH A.2772@TK2MSFTN GP12.phx.gbl:
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> I don't think this is possible since an enum is a type. You can
> iterate thru collections which implement ienumerable, but an enum is
> not a collection.[/color]

You can do this type of operation with Reflection... see previous post
replies for some specific code that demonstrates it.

-mbray

[Alvin Bruney]

Re: recurse through members of an enum

Thanks
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> "Alvin Bruney" <vapordan_spam_ me_not@hotmail_ no_spamhotmail. com> wrote
> in news:uLYIhSgjDH A.2772@TK2MSFTN GP12.phx.gbl:
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> > I don't think this is possible since an enum is a type. You can
> > iterate thru collections which implement ienumerable, but an enum is
> > not a collection.[/color]
>
> You can do this type of operation with Reflection... see previous post
> replies for some specific code that demonstrates it.
>
> -mbray[/color]

[Alvin Bruney]

Re: recurse through members of an enum

sweet code william. sweet code
"William Stacey" <staceyw@mvps.o rg> wrote in message
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> Console.WriteLi ne("The values of the Colors Enum are:");
> foreach(string s in Enum.GetNames(t ypeof(Colors)))
> Console.WriteLi ne(s);
>
> --
> William Stacey, DNS MVP
>
> "Laszlo Szijarto" <lszijarto@nosp am.mrdoc.cc> wrote in message
> news:bm1pl7$muh $1@sulawesi-fi.lerc.nasa.go v...[color=green]
> > What's the best way to recurse through the members of an enum?
> >
> > I want to take an enum and dump into a ListBox the enum's names.
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Laszlo
> >
> >[/color]
>
>[/color]

[Laszlo Szijarto]

Re: recurse through members of an enum

Thank you. This is what I needed. Thank you all for your replies.


"William Stacey" <staceyw@mvps.o rg> wrote in message
news:uUkB0RgjDH A.1656@tk2msftn gp13.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
> Console.WriteLi ne("The values of the Colors Enum are:");
> foreach(string s in Enum.GetNames(t ypeof(Colors)))
> Console.WriteLi ne(s);
>
> --
> William Stacey, DNS MVP
>
> "Laszlo Szijarto" <lszijarto@nosp am.mrdoc.cc> wrote in message
> news:bm1pl7$muh $1@sulawesi-fi.lerc.nasa.go v...[color=green]
> > What's the best way to recurse through the members of an enum?
> >
> > I want to take an enum and dump into a ListBox the enum's names.
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Laszlo
> >
> >[/color]
>
>[/color]