Reverse Reverse Enum Lookup, or GetName
Noah posts about how to look up an enum to a string. If you've got an enum and you want the value as a string, you'd use
Enum.GetName , as in:
Enum.GetName(typeof(Direction),(int)Direction.East)
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GetNames returns a string array of Enum values, which is also useful.
Sometimes you may have the string name of an enumeration identifier, and want its enum type. For example, you write a enum identifier as a string to a file and want to read it back and obtain the original enumeration type. This takes place when you serialize a class to an XML file and deserialize it back using XmlSerializer.
private enum Direction {North, South, East, West};
private Direction ParseDirection(string name)
{ return (Direction) Enum.Parse(typeof(Direction), name, true); }
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[Via Coad's Code Block]