If you’re using Entity Framework with a legacy database then you may well have single character status flags in some of the columns such as “O” = Operational, “M” = Marketing. Ideally these would be numeric IDs that match to a separate status table which would allow the IDs to Read more…
In a similar vein to my post on storing complex properties of a TableEntity in Azure Table Storage it’s also possible to store Enum text values by using custom attributes to control serialization/deserialization.
If you want to have a select list in a web page which is based on all the values in an enum then you can use the built in function “Html.GetEnumSelectList” with a tag helper.
In addition to the SingleOrArrayEnumConverter mentioned previously I’ve also created a version to translate enums to/from JSON using the name of the enum rather than it’s value as is the default. This can then be used to decorate your enum class like so.
In addition to the SingleOrArrayConverter mentioned previously I’ve also created a version to translate enums to/from JSON using the name of the enum rather than it’s value as is the default.