String representation of an Enum

Question

I have the following enumeration:

public enum AuthenticationMethod
{
    FORMS = 1,
    WINDOWSAUTHENTICATION = 2,
    SINGLESIGNON = 3
}

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Answer 1

Very simple solution to this with .Net 4.0 and above. No other code is needed.

public enum MyStatus
{
    Active = 1,
    Archived = 2
}

To get the string about just use:

MyStatus.Active.ToString("f");

or

MyStatus.Archived.ToString("f");`

The value will be "Active" or "Archived".

To see the different string formats (the "f" from above) when calling Enum.ToString see this Enumeration Format Strings page