Inheriting From An Enum?

[Dan Thompson]

I am developing a class that inherits the Event Log Class. I want to make the EventLogEntryType enum available as part of the same namespace as the class I am writing but I don't think I can inherit from an enum. Any way to make this happen so that the client doesn't have to use the System.Diagnostics namespace?

[Klaus H. Probst]

Enums are value types so you can't inherit from them. If you want to do this
you'll have to recreate the enum within your own namespace.

You can use a function like this one to ease the pain of mapping the values:

static void DumpEnum(System.Type t, string name) {

MemberInfo[] mis = t.FindMembers(MemberTypes.Field,
BindingFlags.Static | BindingFlags.Public,
Type.FilterNameIgnoreCase, "*");

foreach (MemberInfo mi in mis) {
FieldInfo fi = mi as FieldInfo;
Debug.WriteLine(string.Format("{0} = {1},", mi.Name, (int)
fi.GetValue(null)));
}

}

Just place the output inside your enum block declaration =)
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I am developing a class that inherits the Event Log Class. I want to make

the EventLogEntryType enum available as part of the same namespace as the
class I am writing but I don't think I can inherit from an enum. Any way to
make this happen so that the client doesn't have to use the
System.Diagnostics namespace?