Getting attributes of Enum's value

Question

I would like to know if it is possible to get attributes of the enum values and not of the enum itself? For example, suppose I have the following <

Answer 1

In addition to AdamCrawford response, I've further created a more specialized extension methods that feed of it to get the description.

public static string GetAttributeDescription(this Enum enumValue)
{
    var attribute = enumValue.GetAttributeOfType();
    return attribute == null ? String.Empty : attribute.Description;
} 

hence, to get the description, you could either use the original extension method as

string desc = myEnumVariable.GetAttributeOfType().Description

or you could simply call the the extension method here as:

string desc = myEnumVariable.GetAttributeDescription();

Which should hopefully make your code a bit more readable.