enums

[Andy B]

Can enums be made up of strings?

 

[Göran Andersson]

Can enums be made up of strings?

No. The possible types are Byte, Integer, Long, SByte, Short, UInteger,
ULong, and UShort.

However, the identifiers are strings, and you can use the ToString
method to get the identifier of one enum value, or the Enum.GetNames
method to get an array with all the identifiers of an enum type.

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

Can enums be made up of strings?

In addition to the other reply:

Creating enumerations of items with a certain arbitrary data type
<URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/?id=anytypeenums&lang=en>

Related:

Adding descriptions to enumeration constants
<URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/?id=enumdescription&lang=en>