Hi,
Today when I was working with Enums and was blocked by a scenario where I need a Space in between the words of Enum. We all know that in Enums we cannot have a space. I was searching for solution and came to know that we can have a desciption as an annotation to the Enum item and read by reflections.
Here is the code for reading the description.
I have the below enum
publicenumDate
{
///<remarks/>
[Description("Created Date")]
CreatedDate,
}
Below is the code which gets the description of Enum
publicstaticstring GetEnumDescription(Enum value)
{
FieldInfo fi = value.GetType().GetField(value.ToString());
DescriptionAttribute[] attributes = (DescriptionAttribute[])fi.GetCustomAttributes(typeof(DescriptionAttribute), false);
if(attributes != null&& attributes.Length > 0)
{
return attributes[0].Description;
}
else
{
return value.ToString();
}
}
Output
string strValueWithOutSpace = Date.CreatedDate.ToString();
string strValueWithSpace = GetEnumDescription(Date.CreatedDate);
Console.WriteLine("Without Space : " + strValueWithOutSpace);
Console.WriteLine("With Space : " + strValueWithSpace);
Console.Read();
}
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Hope this helps.
--
Happy Coding
Gopinath
Today when I was working with Enums and was blocked by a scenario where I need a Space in between the words of Enum. We all know that in Enums we cannot have a space. I was searching for solution and came to know that we can have a desciption as an annotation to the Enum item and read by reflections.
Here is the code for reading the description.
I have the below enum
publicenumDate
{
///<remarks/>
[Description("Created Date")]
CreatedDate,
}
Below is the code which gets the description of Enum
publicstaticstring GetEnumDescription(Enum value)
{
FieldInfo fi = value.GetType().GetField(value.ToString());
DescriptionAttribute[] attributes = (DescriptionAttribute[])fi.GetCustomAttributes(typeof(DescriptionAttribute), false);
if(attributes != null&& attributes.Length > 0)
{
return attributes[0].Description;
}
else
{
return value.ToString();
}
}
Output
staticvoid Main(string[] args)
{string strValueWithOutSpace = Date.CreatedDate.ToString();
string strValueWithSpace = GetEnumDescription(Date.CreatedDate);
Console.WriteLine("Without Space : " + strValueWithOutSpace);
Console.WriteLine("With Space : " + strValueWithSpace);
Console.Read();
}
Hope this helps.
--
Happy Coding
Gopinath