Enum “Inheritance”

Question

I have an enum in a low level namespace. I\'d like to provide a class or enum in a mid level namespace that \"inherits\" the low level enum.

namespace low
{
         


        

Answer 1

Ignoring the fact that base is a reserved word you cannot do inheritance of enum.

The best thing you could do is something like that:

public enum Baseenum
{
   x, y, z
}

public enum Consume
{
   x = Baseenum.x,
   y = Baseenum.y,
   z = Baseenum.z
}

public void Test()
{
   Baseenum a = Baseenum.x;
   Consume newA = (Consume) a;

   if ((Int32) a == (Int32) newA)
   {
   MessageBox.Show(newA.ToString());
   }
}

Since they're all the same base type (ie: int) you could assign the value from an instance of one type to the other which a cast. Not ideal but it work.