When and Why do we need an "ENUM" ? [Resolved]

Enumeration is a user defined integer type that allows us to give user friendly names. It is generally used when we have limited number of numeric choices and want to convey these choices with user friendly names.

It makes our codes cleaner, easier to maintain and easy to remember as Visual Studio provides its intellisense.

For example:

enum Day

{

Sunday,

Monday,

Tuesday,

Wednesday,

Thursday,

Friday,

Saturday

}

In the above code snippet, Sunday is 0, Monday is 1 and so on.

Below are some post that should help you.

http://www.dotnetfunda.com/codes/code915-binding-enumerations-to-the-gridview.aspx
http://www.dotnetfunda.com/codes/code1473-list-all-the-enumeration-values.aspx
http://www.dotnetfunda.com/forums/thread4660-what-is-enumeration-enum.aspx

Thanks

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Sheo Narayan
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thank you for the answer..

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