How to do an enumeration in an interface?

[Richard Lewis Haggard]

I have a situation where I have to combine an enumerated value with an
interface. How can this be done?

namespace Stuff
{
public interface IThing
{
// This doesn't work, of course...
public enum EnumeratedStuff
{
None, First, Second
}

bool SomeMethod();
}
}

namespace Stuff
{
public class Thing : IThing
{
// Implement the enumerated EnumeratedStuff.

bool SomeMethod()
{
return true;
}
}
}
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[Tom Porterfield]

Richard Lewis Haggard wrote:

I have a situation where I have to combine an enumerated value with an
interface. How can this be done?

namespace Stuff
{
public interface IThing
{
// This doesn't work, of course...
public enum EnumeratedStuff
{
None, First, Second
}

bool SomeMethod();
}
}

namespace Stuff
{
public class Thing : IThing
{
// Implement the enumerated EnumeratedStuff.

bool SomeMethod()
{
return true;
}
}
}

Do you mean something like this:

namespace Stuff
{
public interface IThing
{
bool SomeMethod();
EnumeratedStuff EnumStuff{ get;set; }
}

public enum EnumeratedStuff
{
None, First, Second
}
}

namespace Stuff
{
public class Thing : IThing
{
private EnumeratedStuff es = EnumeratedStuff.None;

public bool SomeMethod()
{
return true;
}

public EnumeratedStuff EnumStuff
{
get { return this.es; }
set { this.es = value; }
}
}
}
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Tom Porterfield

[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

Richard,

You can't do that. The enumeration has to be defined outside of the
interface, and you can't declare that the interface has to declare an
enumeration type with that name.
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- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
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"Richard Lewis Haggard" <HaggardAtWorldDotStdDotComwrote in message
news:eP**************@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...

>I have a situation where I have to combine an enumerated value with an
interface. How can this be done?

namespace Stuff
{
public interface IThing
{
// This doesn't work, of course...
public enum EnumeratedStuff
{
None, First, Second
}

bool SomeMethod();
}
}

namespace Stuff
{
public class Thing : IThing
{
// Implement the enumerated EnumeratedStuff.

bool SomeMethod()
{
return true;
}
}
}
--
Richard Lewis Haggard
General: www.Haggard-And-Associates.com
Please come visit here for a couple thousand good giggles!:
www.haggard-and-associates.com/Humor/humor.htm

[Richard Lewis Haggard]

Greatly appreciated. Your response told me exactly what I needed to know.
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"Tom Porterfield" <tp******@mvps.orgwrote in message
news:%2******************@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

Richard Lewis Haggard wrote:

>I have a situation where I have to combine an enumerated value with an
interface. How can this be done?

namespace Stuff
{
public interface IThing
{
// This doesn't work, of course...
public enum EnumeratedStuff
{
None, First, Second
}

bool SomeMethod();
}
}

namespace Stuff
{
public class Thing : IThing
{
// Implement the enumerated EnumeratedStuff.

bool SomeMethod()
{
return true;
}
}
}

Do you mean something like this:

namespace Stuff
{
public interface IThing
{
bool SomeMethod();
EnumeratedStuff EnumStuff{ get;set; }
}

public enum EnumeratedStuff
{
None, First, Second
}
}

namespace Stuff
{
public class Thing : IThing
{
private EnumeratedStuff es = EnumeratedStuff.None;

public bool SomeMethod()
{
return true;
}

public EnumeratedStuff EnumStuff
{
get { return this.es; }
set { this.es = value; }
}
}
}
--
Tom Porterfield