How to expose an enum

[Ant]

Hi,
Im wrapping a MailMessage object & need to expose the Priority property.
This property is set to a value of the 'MailPriority' enum. My question is,
how do I create a member that accepts this enum as a value?

as a field named Priority:

public MailPriority Priority; //doesn't work

So that I can set it from the Email instance like this:

myEmail.Priority = MailPriority.High;

Any suggestions would be most appreciated

Ant

[Truong Hong Thi]

>public MailPriority Priority; //doesn't work
Why not? What is the complaint?
It should work. You could defined a public property also:
private MailPriority priority
public Priority
{
get {return priority; }
set {priority = value; }
}

If it does not work, pls post the error message.

Thi - http://thith.blogspot.com

[Ivan Wong]

Have you define the enum type called MailPriority ??
e.g.
public enum MailPriority
{
High = 1,
Low = 2
};

if you define the enum type in other class .. remember to set a reference to
that class.

Hope it helps,
Ivan Wong

"Ant" wrote:

Hi,
Im wrapping a MailMessage object & need to expose the Priority property.
This property is set to a value of the 'MailPriority' enum. My question is,
how do I create a member that accepts this enum as a value?

as a field named Priority:

public MailPriority Priority; //doesn't work

So that I can set it from the Email instance like this:

myEmail.Priority = MailPriority.High;

Any suggestions would be most appreciated

Ant

[Ant]

Sorry, my mistake,
I was using it in another class & had forgotten to add the 'using
System.Web.Mail' declaritive in that class. It works fine now.

Thanks for helping out though.
Ant

"Truong Hong Thi" wrote:

public MailPriority Priority; //doesn't work

Why not? What is the complaint?
It should work. You could defined a public property also:
private MailPriority priority
public Priority
{
get {return priority; }
set {priority = value; }
}

If it does not work, pls post the error message.

Thi - http://thith.blogspot.com