Data From Defined Class

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Tanmay Hajra9y ago
Accepted answer
Jay.. to retrieve the Enum data from it's value you have to use reflection.Please check following link : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3327883/get-enum-name-when-value-is-known
Tanmay Hajra9y ago
Jay. Is there any Error or Exception you are facing while executing the code?

I have gone through the code you have written and I think, if u have valid integer value (obviously Not NULL value ) in your Product textbox while executing the code, it should work. :)

However please tell me the exact issue you are facing .
Jay Stewart9y ago
@ Tanmay Hajra

Thank you thats perfect :D

I was wondering if you could advise me on this please
product.Text = (Enum.GetName(typeof(Variables.product), Convert.ToInt32(product.Text)));
The textbox's on the form are filled from a Datagrid View. The Textbox product gets filled with an int, which I want to change to text using the code above. How can I do this becuase my code doesnt work. I could use a label hidden then populate the TextBox but thought I would see if there was another way..
Regards
Jay
Jay Stewart9y ago
Thank you Nilesh, I know its out of the normal :(.

I will look into your suggestion
Nilesh Shah9y ago
your requirement is strange and opposite to what everyone in programming want.

what is easy to identify and remember in code? words like hammer, nails, etc. which can be easily written and then identified by their key values like 100, 1001, etc.

or by something like 1,2,3 and god know's what is that.

anyways coming to your question, if you want to access hammer by writing 1, then enum is not going to work.

as per MSDN:
The approved types for an enum are byte, sbyte, short, ushort, int, uint, long, or ulong.

so enum cannot hold value "Hammer" for the key "1"

I suggest you use dictionary
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.collections.generic.dictionary-2?view=netframework-4.7