Converting an integer enumeration to a string

Question

subject to the following listing:

public enum LeadStatus { Cold = 1, Warm = 2, Hot = 3, Quote = 5, Convert = 6 } 

How to convert integer value back to string when I pull the value from the database. I tried:

 DomainModel.LeadStatus status = (DomainModel.LeadStatus)Model.Status; 

but all that seems to me is "status = 0"

Answer 1

An enumeration in C # is used to provide names for some known values, but ANY integer value is allowed in this enumeration, regardless of whether it has a named equivalent or not.

In your example, you did not specify a null value, but your status variable is initialized to zero. I suspect that it has not changed from this initial value at the moment you read it. Therefore, this string representation is also 0, and you parse zero when parsing it.

Answer 2

What you are looking for is Enum.Parse.

"Converts a string representation of the name or numeric value of one or more of the listed constants into an equivalent enumerated object."

Here is the MSDN page: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/essfb559.aspx

Example:

 enum Colour { Red, Green, Blue } // ... Colour c = (Colour) Enum.Parse(typeof(Colour), "Red", true); 

Provided by http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2004/04/02/106310.aspx

Answer 3

Between Enum.Parse and Enum.ToString , you should be able to do whatever you need.

Answer 4

Just use ToString () for the enumeration object

Answer 5

Given that "Model.Status" is an integer from the database, it can be restored to the string value Enum with:

 string status = Enum.GetName(typeof(DomainModel.LeadStatus), Model.Status);