enumerations & reflection

[Mordachai]

I'm trying to simply generate the list of enumeration values for a given
enumeration class.

e.g., for the following:

enum struct Colors { red, green, blue };

I would like to have a function:

void PrintValuesOf(t he enumeration class or instance or whatever works)
{
for each (value in the given enumeration)
Console::WriteL ine(the name of the enumeration & its value);
}

Which would output:

red
green
blue

Thanks for any assistence!

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Steven S. Wolf
Head of Software Development
Cimex Corporation

[Carl Daniel [VC++ MVP]]

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I'm trying to simply generate the list of enumeration values for a given
enumeration class.

e.g., for the following:

enum struct Colors { red, green, blue };

I would like to have a function:

void PrintValuesOf(t he enumeration class or instance or whatever works)
{
for each (value in the given enumeration)
Console::WriteL ine(the name of the enumeration & its value);
}

Which would output:

red
green
blue

Thanks for any assistence!

Something like this -

<code>
using namespace System;
using namespace System::Reflect ion;

public enum struct Colors { red, green, blue };

void PrintValuesOf(T ype^ enumType)
{
if (!enumType->IsEnum)
return;
for each (MemberInfo^ mi in
enumType->GetMembers(Bin dingFlags::Stat ic|BindingFlags ::Public))
{
if (mi->MemberType != MemberTypes::Fi eld)
continue;
Console::WriteL ine("Name: {0} Value:
{1}",mi->Name,(int)Enum ::Parse(enumTyp e,mi->Name));
}
}

void main()
{
PrintValuesOf(C olors::typeid);
}

</code>

There might be a better way to get the value associated with a given member
name than using Enum.Parse, but if there is, I didn't find it.

-cd