How to evaluate enum stored in Session in C# ASP.Net

[vanvee]

Hi
I have an ASP.Net project in C# I am basing on a ASP.Net VB.Net
project. Trying to use a similar coding technique, I have the
following problem:

I have an enum declared as follows

public enum EditMode
{
Add,
Update
}

Then I store a value in a Session in various places...as an example

Session["EditMode"] = EditMode.Update;
Then, later I am tring to determine the value in an if statement

if (Session["EditMode"] == EditMode.Update)
{
....
}

yet I get an error message
"Operator '==' cannot be applied to operands of type 'object' and
'MyWebApp.MyWebFormClass.EditMode'

I tried

if (Session["EditMode"] == (object)EditMode.Update)
this seems to allow the application to build but it doesn't work

When I do an AddWatch on Session["EditMode"] it says Update as I would
think it would but I'm stuck as to how to get the if statement to
evaluate correctly

Thanks for any help....

[Ciaran]

you need to cast the Session object back to an enum.
e.g
if (((EditMode)Session["EditMode"]) == EditMode.Update)

Ciaran
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Hi
I have an ASP.Net project in C# I am basing on a ASP.Net VB.Net
project. Trying to use a similar coding technique, I have the
following problem:

I have an enum declared as follows

public enum EditMode
{
Add,
Update
}

Then I store a value in a Session in various places...as an example

Session["EditMode"] = EditMode.Update;
Then, later I am tring to determine the value in an if statement

if (Session["EditMode"] == EditMode.Update)
{
...
}

yet I get an error message
"Operator '==' cannot be applied to operands of type 'object' and
'MyWebApp.MyWebFormClass.EditMode'

I tried

if (Session["EditMode"] == (object)EditMode.Update)
this seems to allow the application to build but it doesn't work

When I do an AddWatch on Session["EditMode"] it says Update as I would
think it would but I'm stuck as to how to get the if statement to
evaluate correctly

Thanks for any help....