enum 'expansion' / 'extention'

[Andrew Robinson]

Not sure what to call this, but I have a series of User Controls that
display the days of the week. Usually using a set of radio buttons. Works
very well.

I display the user controls in a form and typically allow the user to select
only a single day within a single week. There are at times, up to 8 weeks
displayed, but the user is allowed only one day to be selected across all
controls. As the use clicks on a radio button, all other buttons on all
other user controls are cleared. I am doing this by fireing an event from
the control to the windows form. Again, works very well.

I use the 'System.DayOfWeek' enumeration to get and set the value of the
control. I even use this enumeration in the even on the control that is
fired when the user changed the selection. Again works very well.

Now, I would like to add a state that has no selection on the control. I am
currently doing this with an additional Boolean flag, but is there any way
that I can in effect add another value to System.DayOfWeek. This would be
really helpful as I could continue to pass this value around my application
without worrying about conversion.

Or, is this a possible use for nullable types in 2.0?

-Andrew

[Kevin Yu [MSFT]]

Hi Andrew,

First of all, I would like to confirm my understanding of your issue. From
your description, I understand that you need to add a new null value to the
System.DayOfWeek enumeration. If there is any misunderstanding, please feel
free to let me know.

Currently, we cannot add an enum to the DayOfWeek enumeration. So I think
the best workaround is to add a flag which indicates if the object has
value.

However, in .NET framework 2.0, we'll have nullable types for value types.
You can just declare an object as follows:

Nullable<System.DayOfWeek> a = null;
or
Nullable<System.DayOfWeek> a = DayOfWeek.Sunday;

We can use a.HasValue to check if it is a null value.

HTH.

Kevin Yu
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[Andrew]

thanks, pretty much what I thought all the way around.

-Andrew

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Hi Andrew,

First of all, I would like to confirm my understanding of your issue. From
your description, I understand that you need to add a new null value to
the
System.DayOfWeek enumeration. If there is any misunderstanding, please
feel
free to let me know.

Currently, we cannot add an enum to the DayOfWeek enumeration. So I think
the best workaround is to add a flag which indicates if the object has
value.

However, in .NET framework 2.0, we'll have nullable types for value types.
You can just declare an object as follows:

Nullable<System.DayOfWeek> a = null;
or
Nullable<System.DayOfWeek> a = DayOfWeek.Sunday;

We can use a.HasValue to check if it is a null value.

HTH.

Kevin Yu
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[Kevin Yu [MSFT]]

You're welcome, Andrew.

Thanks for sharing your experience with all the people here. If you have
any questions, please feel free to post them in the community.

Kevin Yu
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