Hello,

    I am trying to pass an enum as a parameter to and another class.  The class that is going to receive it does not know what the values of the enum are.  This class is going to be used throughout my program where I need to pass several different enum's through to it.  Does anyone know how to do this? 

Thanks in advance.

 

I am assuming you are passing the value as a param to a method.

So if the enum looks like this

public enum enumXYZ
{

X= 1, Y = 2, Z = 3

}

You will have a method like this 

public void mymethod(enumXYZ xyztype)

{}

Pass it the value like this

//begin

 enumXYZ myz = enumXYZ.Z;

mymethod(myz);

//end

Hello ICEMAN2303,

=> You can pass ‘my_enum’ or any other type of enumerations to the ‘test’ function, as a parameter :

Array consts = Enum.GetValues(a.GetType()); // enumeration constants

string[] names = Enum.GetNames(a.GetType()); // names of enumeration constants

a = (Enum)consts.GetValue(2); // set the enumeration with its first constant

int first_value = (int)consts.GetValue(0); // set with the value of first enumeration constant

MessageBox.Show("Enumeration has its last value");

}