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    <p>In the post <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/479410/enum-tostring">Enum ToString</a>, a method is described to use the custom attribute <code>DescriptionAttribute</code> like this:</p> <pre><code>Enum HowNice { [Description("Really Nice")] ReallyNice, [Description("Kinda Nice")] SortOfNice, [Description("Not Nice At All")] NotNice } </code></pre> <p>And then, you call a function <code>GetDescription</code>, using syntax like:</p> <pre><code>GetDescription&lt;HowNice&gt;(NotNice); // Returns "Not Nice At All" </code></pre> <p>But that doesn't really help me <strong>when I want to simply populate a ComboBox with the values of an enum, since I cannot force the ComboBox to call <code>GetDescription</code></strong>.</p> <p>What I want has the following requirements:</p> <ul> <li>Reading <code>(HowNice)myComboBox.selectedItem</code> will return the selected value as the enum value.</li> <li>The user should see the user-friendly display strings, and not just the name of the enumeration values. So instead of seeing "<code>NotNice</code>", the user would see "<code>Not Nice At All</code>".</li> <li>Hopefully, the solution will require minimal code changes to existing enumerations.</li> </ul> <p>Obviously, I could implement a new class for each enum that I create, and override its <code>ToString()</code>, but that's a lot of work for each enum, and I'd rather avoid that.</p> <p>Any ideas?</p> <p>Heck, I'll even throw in a <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/795979/retrieve-a-list-of-the-most-popular-get-param-variations-for-a-given-url">hug</a> as a bounty :-)</p>
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    1. COjjnguy is correct that Java enums solve this nicely (http://javahowto.blogspot.com/2006/10/custom-string-values-for-enum.html), but that's of questionable relevance.
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