What Does the [Flags] Attribute Really Do?

Question

What does applying [Flags] really do?

I know it modifies the behavior of Enum.ToString, but does it do anything else? (e.g. Different compiler or runtime behavior, e

Answer 1

See David M. Kean's post here. This appears to be a language interop issue:

Although C# happily allows users to perform bit operations on enums without the FlagsAttribute, Visual Basic does not. So if you are exposing types to other languages, then marking enums with the FlagsAttribute is a good idea; it also makes it clear that the members of the enum are designed to be used together.

Regards

David