Getting Enum value via reflection

Question

I have a simple Enum

 public enum TestEnum
 {
     TestOne = 3,
     TestTwo = 4
 }

var testing = TestEnum.TestOne;

And I want to retrieve

Answer 1

For your requirement it's as simple as people already pointed it out. Just cast the enum object to int and you'd get the numeric value of the enum.

int value = (int) TestEnum.TestOne;

However, if there is a need to mix-down enum values with | (bitwise OR) e.g.

var value = TestEnum.TestOne | TestEnum.TestTwo;

and you wish to get what options that mixed-down value represents, here is how you could do it (note: this is for enums that represented by int values intended to take advantage of bitwise operatations) :

first, get the enum options along with their values in a dictionary.

var all_options_dic = typeof(TestEnum).GetEnumValues().Cast