I recently had to convert an Enum back to its original Xml value so I thought I’d share the little method I wrote with you all incase you wondered how to do it yourself.
Method
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public static string ConvertToString(Enum e) { // Get the Type of the enum Type t = e.GetType(); // Get the FieldInfo for the member field with the enums name FieldInfo info = t.GetField(e.ToString("G")); // Check to see if the XmlEnumAttribute is defined on this field if (!info.IsDefined(typeof(XmlEnumAttribute), false)) { // If no XmlEnumAttribute then return the string version of the enum. return e.ToString("G"); } // Get the XmlEnumAttribute object[] o = info.GetCustomAttributes(typeof(XmlEnumAttribute), false); XmlEnumAttribute att = (XmlEnumAttribute)o[0]; return att.Name; } |
Example Enum Class
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public enum TestEnumClass { FirstValue = 1, SecondValue = 2, [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlEnum("The Third one")] ThirdValue = 3 } |
Example usage
An Enum of TestEnumClass.FirstValue will then return “FirstValue”, while TestEnumClass.ThirdValue will return “The Third one”.
Hope you find that useful.