C# numeric enum value as string

Question

I have the following enum:

public enum Urgency {
    VeryHigh = 1,
    High     = 2,
    Routine  = 4
}

I can fetch an enum \"value

Answer 1

If you want to just deal with this enum, use Mark Byer's solution.

For a more general solution:

public static string NumberString(this Enum enVal) 
{
    return Convert.ToDecimal(enVal).ToString("0");
}

Converting to decimal means you don't need to deal with the 8 different allowed underlying integral types explicitly, as all of them convert losslessly to decimal but not to each other (ulong and long don't convert losslessly between each other but both can handle all the rest). Doing that would probably be faster (esp. if you pick well in your order of comparison), but a lot more verbose for relatively little gain.

Edit:

The above isn't as good as Frankentosh's though, Frankentosh saw through the question to the real problem and solves it very eloquently.