Same Enum with different values depending of the project

[Alan]

Hi, is it possible to create a project that can offer
different members of a Public Enum according to a
condition ?

I mean, Project A has a public enum.
Project B & C access A's enum. However B should see some
elements of the enum while C should see others...

Is this achievable ??

Thanks a lot,
Alan.

[Imran Koradia]

AFAIK, you cannot do that. Any particular reason you would want to do that?
Maybe there's some other way to achieve what you want to do. A little more
detail would certainly help.

Imran.

"Alan" <an*******@disc ussions.microso ft.com> wrote in message
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Hi, is it possible to create a project that can offer
different members of a Public Enum according to a
condition ?

I mean, Project A has a public enum.
Project B & C access A's enum. However B should see some
elements of the enum while C should see others...

Is this achievable ??

Thanks a lot,
Alan.

[Alan]

"Imran Koradia" wrote:

AFAIK, you cannot do that. Any particular reason you would want to do that?
Maybe there's some other way to achieve what you want to do. A little more
detail would certainly help.

Imran.

Well, what i'm trying to accomplish is the following:

To have a custom control with an enum property where the enum property
coincides with a value on the database. The custom control will use the enum
value selected to retrieve child values from the database. So the control
cares not about the description of the enum, it just uses the number.

So the idea is to be able to provide this descriptions according to the
project i'm using this custom control from.

If i'm using the control from project A then the enum should be:

public enum myenum
enumval0 = 0
enumval1 = 1
enumval2 = 2
end enum

and if from project B:

public enum myenum
otherval0 = 0
otherval1 = 0
otherval2 = 0
end enum

This is just to be able to use the control from different projects and give
the developer the intellisense functionality provided by enums

[Imran Koradia]

I don't quite understand why you would want to do that. One thing is for
sure that you cannot assign different values to enums - they are effectively
constants that cannot be changed. The only thing I can think of is defining
multiple enums.

Imran.

"Alan" <Al**@discussio ns.microsoft.co m> wrote in message
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"Imran Koradia" wrote:

AFAIK, you cannot do that. Any particular reason you would want to do that? Maybe there's some other way to achieve what you want to do. A little more detail would certainly help.

Imran.

Well, what i'm trying to accomplish is the following:

To have a custom control with an enum property where the enum property
coincides with a value on the database. The custom control will use the

enum value selected to retrieve child values from the database. So the control
cares not about the description of the enum, it just uses the number.

So the idea is to be able to provide this descriptions according to the
project i'm using this custom control from.

If i'm using the control from project A then the enum should be:

public enum myenum
enumval0 = 0
enumval1 = 1
enumval2 = 2
end enum

and if from project B:

public enum myenum
otherval0 = 0
otherval1 = 0
otherval2 = 0
end enum

This is just to be able to use the control from different projects and give the developer the intellisense functionality provided by enums