Iterating through an enumeration?

[Jamie Winder via .NET 247]

Is it possible to iterate through all of the possible values of an enumeration? (with foreach, maybe?)

What I need to do is fill a ComboBox with all possible values for an enumeration.
e.g

foreach ([value] in [enumeration])
{
comboBox1.Items.Add (value.ToString ("G");
}

Is this possible? Is so, how?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Guest]

hi
enumeration does not implement an IEnumerable Interface .so i think its not
possible to iterate an enumeration using foreach


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[Liam McNamara]

string[] values = Enum.GetNames(typeof(MyEnum));

--Liam.

Is it possible to iterate through all of the possible values of an

enumeration? (with foreach, maybe?)

What I need to do is fill a ComboBox with all possible values for an enumeration.
e.g

foreach ([value] in [enumeration])
{
comboBox1.Items.Add (value.ToString ("G");
}

Is this possible? Is so, how?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Anders Borum]

Yes, or just doing a foreach on the returned string array from the
Enum.GetNames method to shorten the code even further.

 

[Liam McNamara]

If you're worried about the code being as concise as possible you can use:

this.listBox1.Items.AddRange(Enum.GetNames(typeof(MyEnum)));

Assuming the listbox is empty, of course.

--Liam.

 

[Anders Borum]

And assuming you don't want to change validate / parse the values from the
enum before adding them to the collection

 

[Jay B. Harlow [MVP - Outlook]]

Jamie,
I normally use:

comboBox1.DataSource = Enum.GetValues(typeof(enumeration))

Hope this helps
Jay