enums ... what am I doing wrong?

[Craig]

Newbie...

I'm casting enums back and forth to ints so to use them as an index into a
complex two dimensional array. I thought it would help readability.
Instead, my code has casts all over the place.

All the casting is giving me the jitters. Where did I go wrong?

Thanks!

[ShaneB]

Why are you casting them in the first place? :)

public enum ConnectionStatu s : int
{
Resolving, Resolved, Connecting, Connected, Disconnecting, Disconnected
}
ShaneB
"Craig" <sp******@hotma il.com> wrote in message
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Newbie...

I'm casting enums back and forth to ints so to use them as an index into a
complex two dimensional array. I thought it would help readability.
Instead, my code has casts all over the place.

All the casting is giving me the jitters. Where did I go wrong?

Thanks!

[Stoitcho Goutsev \(100\) [C# MVP]]

ShaneB,

There is no implicit cast for enums to their underlaying type.

public enum ConnectionStatu s : int
{
Resolving, Resolved, Connecting, Connected, Disconnecting, Disconnected
}
In fact, despite of the that syntax c# uses, ConnectionStatu s doesn't
inherit from *int*

Thus, in the case of using enum values for indexing arrays casting is
necessary.
--
Stoitcho Goutsev (100) [C# MVP]
"ShaneB" <st********@yah oo.com> wrote in message
news:ev******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP11.phx.gbl... Why are you casting them in the first place? :)

public enum ConnectionStatu s : int
{
Resolving, Resolved, Connecting, Connected, Disconnecting, Disconnected
}
ShaneB
"Craig" <sp******@hotma il.com> wrote in message
news:Xv******** ***********@twi ster.socal.rr.c om...

Newbie...

I'm casting enums back and forth to ints so to use them as an index into
a complex two dimensional array. I thought it would help readability.
Instead, my code has casts all over the place.

All the casting is giving me the jitters. Where did I go wrong?

Thanks!

[ShaneB]

Actually, that post should have been canceled. Two seconds after I hit
send, I realized my mistake :)

ShaneB

"Stoitcho Goutsev (100) [C# MVP]" <10*@100.com> wrote in message
news:uf******** ******@tk2msftn gp13.phx.gbl...

ShaneB,

There is no implicit cast for enums to their underlaying type.

public enum ConnectionStatu s : int
{
Resolving, Resolved, Connecting, Connected, Disconnecting,
Disconnected
}

In fact, despite of the that syntax c# uses, ConnectionStatu s doesn't
inherit from *int*

Thus, in the case of using enum values for indexing arrays casting is
necessary.

[Hans Kesting]

Craig wrote:

Newbie...

I'm casting enums back and forth to ints so to use them as an index
into a complex two dimensional array. I thought it would help
readability. Instead, my code has casts all over the place.

All the casting is giving me the jitters. Where did I go wrong?

Thanks!

How about using constants instead of enum values?
* same readability of enum (words instead of "magic numbers")
* they really are int's

public const int WHATEVER = 3;
myval = store[WHATEVER];

Hans Kesting