Collection of Enum with additional properties

[Donal McWeeney]

Just thinking out loud here and looking for feedback in case I missed
something...

I was to track some additional properties around an enum I have - for
example a display name and a description. So I was thinking a building a
class EnumDescriptor to store these properties - and make it generic so that
it could be used for all enums.

I also need to be able to store and manage a collection of these
EnumDescriptor objects... for this I was thinking of building a custom
collection class (EnumDescriptorCollection) by inheriting from the the
NameObjectCollectionBase class.

Anybody know if I missed something in the .net framework that may do the
above for me?
Or if I missed anything in the logic...

Thanks

Donal

[Donal McWeeney]

True... the only drawback to this is that enum has too much free
functionality with it to ignore it.

Thanks

Donal
"chornbe" <an*******@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:D9**********************************@microsof t.com...

Would your own custom attribute classes work better for you in place of an

enum, then collect them in a standard dictionary?