Dynamic Enums

[balabaster]

Does anyone have any clue how to dynamically build an enum at design time based on items defined in a configuration file? I'm thinking there may be an approach using compiler services and something akin to type extensions... but I've looked for similar things before and came up empty.

[nateraaaa]

Have you looked at the EnumBuilder Class in MSDN? I haven't personally used this class but it appears to be what you are looking for.

http://msdn.microsoft. com/en-us/library/system.reflecti on.emit.enumbui lder.aspx

Nathan

[balabaster]

Have you looked at the EnumBuilder Class in MSDN? I haven't personally used this class but it appears to be what you are looking for.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.reflection.emit.enumbuilder.aspx

Nathan

Cheers, I'll check it out. Although I can't for the life of me remember what I was trying to do with them... it must have been something to do with interfaces, I can't think of another valid reason for building a dynamic enum except as a middle tier to allow simple separation of business logic from GUI logic...

Ben