[Microsoft Techies Blog] Defining Enumeration Types in console application

[Amit thakur]

An enumeration is a user-defined value type that inherits directly from the System.Enumtype. You typically use enumeration types to represent a fixed set of options such as the days of the week or the possible states of a database connection. To define an enumeration type, use the enum (C#) keyword. An

Enumeration type contains mnemonics that represent integer values; these values start at 0 and increase in steps of 1 by default. Enumerations cannot define methods, properties, or constructors. Furthermore, enumerations cannot implement interfaces, and they cannot explicitly inherit from a class or be used as a base class.

The following examples shown:

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Linq;

using System.Text;

namespace ConsoleApplication5

{

enum color { red, green, blue,white,black,orange,pink,yellow, };

class Program

{

static void Main(string[] args)

{

Console.WriteLine((int)color.red);

Console.WriteLine((int)color.green);

Console.WriteLine((int)color.blue);

Console.WriteLine((int)color.white);

Console.WriteLine((int)color.black);

Console.WriteLine((int)color.orange);

Console.WriteLine((int)color.pink);

Console.WriteLine((int)color.yellow);

Console.ReadLine();

}

}

}

Output is display bellow.

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Posted By Amit thakur to Microsoft Techies Blog at 12/06/2011 08:49:00 AM