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]

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" <ls*******@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

[Alvin Bruney]

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" <ls*******@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

[Michael Bray]

"Alvin Bruney" <vapordan_spam_ me_not@hotmail_ no_spamhotmail. com> wrote
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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.

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

-mbray

[Alvin Bruney]

Thanks
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"Alvin Bruney" <vapordan_spam_ me_not@hotmail_ no_spamhotmail. com> wrote
in news:uL******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP12.phx.gbl:

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.

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

-mbray

[Alvin Bruney]

sweet code william. sweet code
"William Stacey" <st*****@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);

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William Stacey, DNS MVP

"Laszlo Szijarto" <ls*******@nosp am.mrdoc.cc> wrote in message
news:bm******** **@sulawesi-fi.lerc.nasa.go v...

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

[Laszlo Szijarto]

Thank you. This is what I needed. Thank you all for your replies.
"William Stacey" <st*****@mvps.o rg> wrote in message
news:uU******** ******@tk2msftn gp13.phx.gbl...

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" <ls*******@nosp am.mrdoc.cc> wrote in message
news:bm******** **@sulawesi-fi.lerc.nasa.go v...

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