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copied!<p>The way I have always done it is as follows. The beauty of this solution is that it is completely generic, and can be re-used for any enumeration types.</p> <p>1) When you define an enumeration make use of some custom attributes to give a little information. In this example I've used Browsable(false) to indicate that this enumerator is internal, and I don't want to see this option in a combo box. Description("") allows me to specify a Display name for the enumeration.</p> <pre><code>public enum MyEnumerationTypeEnum { [Browsable(false)] Undefined, [Description("Item 1")] Item1, [Description("Item 2")] Item2, Item3 } </code></pre> <p>2) Define a class which I've called EnumerationManager. This is a generic class that analyzes an Enumeration type and generates a list of values. If an enumerator has Browsable set to false it will be skipped. If it has a Description attribute then it will use the description string as the display name. If no description is found it will just show the default string of the enumerator.</p> <pre><code>public class EnumerationManager { public static Array GetValues(Type enumeration) { Array wArray = Enum.GetValues(enumeration); ArrayList wFinalArray = new ArrayList(); foreach(Enum wValue in wArray) { FieldInfo fi = enumeration.GetField(wValue.ToString()); if(null != fi) { BrowsableAttribute[] wBrowsableAttributes = fi.GetCustomAttributes(typeof(BrowsableAttribute),true) as BrowsableAttribute[]; if(wBrowsableAttributes.Length > 0) { // If the Browsable attribute is false if(wBrowsableAttributes[0].Browsable == false) { // Do not add the enumeration to the list. continue; } } DescriptionAttribute[] wDescriptions = fi.GetCustomAttributes(typeof(DescriptionAttribute),true) as DescriptionAttribute[]; if(wDescriptions.Length > 0) { wFinalArray.Add(wDescriptions[0].Description); } else wFinalArray.Add(wValue); } } return wFinalArray.ToArray(); } } </code></pre> <p>3) In your xaml add a section in your ResourceDictionary </p> <pre><code> <ObjectDataProvider MethodName="GetValues" ObjectType="{x:Type l:EnumerationManager}" x:Key="OutputListForMyComboBox"> <ObjectDataProvider.MethodParameters> <x:Type TypeName="l:MyEnumerationTypeEnum" /> </ObjectDataProvider.MethodParameters> </ObjectDataProvider> </code></pre> <p>4) Now just bind the ItemsSource of your combobox to this key we just defined in the resource dictionary</p> <pre><code><ComboBox Name="comboBox2" ItemsSource="{Binding Source={StaticResource OutputListForMyComboBox}}" /> </code></pre> <p>If you try this code using my enumeration above you should see 3 items in your combo box:</p> <pre><code>Item 1 Item 2 Item3 </code></pre> <p>Hope this helps.</p> <p>EDITS: If you add the implementation of the LocalizableDescriptionAttribute and use that instead the Description attribute that I was using that would be perfect.</p>

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