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Create Drop Down List Options From Enum

Posted By Venu Thomas

To view the values of an enumeration’s type (enum) to a DropdownList (or other controls with a DataSource property available) is sufficient to bind the following code:

Here’s an example with its own enum (of course also works with system types)

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public enum CountryList
{
Germany = 1,
India = 2,
Japan = 3,
UAE = 4,
USA = 5
}
 
DropdownList1.DataSource = System.Enum.GetValues(typeof(CountryList));

Now, whenever you want to get to The Value of Even enum () method of the enum is useful to get under the VALUE of enum sees below snippet will helpful to
you.

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int intCountry = Convert.ToInt32(System.Enum.Parse(typeof(CountryList), DropdownList1.SelectedItem.ToString());

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