Binding an enum to a WinForms combo box, and then setting it

Question

a lot of people have answered the question of how to bind an enum to a combo box in WinForms. Its like this:

comboBox1.DataSource = Enum.GetValues(typeof(MyE         


        

Answer 1

None of these worked for me, but this did (and it had the added benefit of being able to have a better description for the name of each enum). I'm not sure if it's due to .net updates or not, but regardless I think this is the best way. You'll need to add a reference to:

using System.ComponentModel;

enum MyEnum
{
    [Description("Red Color")]
    Red = 10,
    [Description("Blue Color")]
    Blue = 50
}

....

    private void LoadCombobox()
    {
        cmbxNewBox.DataSource = Enum.GetValues(typeof(MyEnum))
            .Cast()
            .Select(value => new
            {
                (Attribute.GetCustomAttribute(value.GetType().GetField(value.ToString()), typeof(DescriptionAttribute)) as DescriptionAttribute).Description,
                value
            })
            .OrderBy(item => item.value)
            .ToList();
        cmbxNewBox.DisplayMember = "Description";
        cmbxNewBox.ValueMember = "value";
    }

Then when you want to access the data use these two lines:

        Enum.TryParse(cmbxNewBox.SelectedValue.ToString(), out MyEnum proc);
        int nValue = (int)proc;