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Provides the base class for enumerations.

Enum Class Members

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Methods Visibility Name Parameters Return Type public CompareTo ( Object target ) Int32 public Equals ( Object obj ) Boolean public static Format ( Type enumType , Object value , String format ) String public GetHashCode ( ) Int32 public static GetName ( Type enumType , Object value ) String public static GetNames ( Type enumType ) String public GetTypeCode ( ) TypeCode public static GetUnderlyingType ( Type enumType ) Type public static GetValues ( Type enumType ) Array public HasFlag ( Enum flag ) Boolean public static IsDefined ( Type enumType , Object value ) Boolean public static Parse ( Type enumType , String value ) Object public static Parse ( Type enumType , String value , Boolean ignoreCase ) Object public static ToObject ( Type enumType , SByte value ) Object public static ToObject ( Type enumType , Int32 value ) Object public static ToObject ( Type enumType , Int16 value ) Object public static ToObject ( Type enumType , Byte value ) Object public static ToObject ( Type enumType , Object value ) Object public static ToObject ( Type enumType , Int64 value ) Object public static ToObject ( Type enumType , UInt64 value ) Object public static ToObject ( Type enumType , UInt16 value ) Object public static ToObject ( Type enumType , UInt32 value ) Object public ToString ( String format , IFormatProvider provider ) String public ToString ( ) String public ToString ( IFormatProvider provider ) String public ToString ( String format ) String public static TryParse ( String value , TEnum& result ) Boolean public static TryParse ( String value , Boolean ignoreCase , TEnum& result ) Boolean

An Enum is a named constant whose underlying type is any integral type except Char. If no underlying type is explicitly declared, Int32 is used. Enum derives from ValueType, but is not a value type. Programming languages typically provide syntax to declare an enumeration that consists of a set of named constants and their values.

Enum provides methods to compare instances of this class, convert the value of an instance to its string representation, convert the string representation of a number to an instance of this class, and create an instance of a specified enumeration and value.

You can also treat an Enum as a bit field. For more information, see FlagsAttribute.

This class inherits from ValueType, and implements the IComparable, IFormattable, and IConvertible interfaces. Use the Convert class for conversions instead of this class' explicit interface member implementation of IConvertible.

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