Databinding an enum property to a ComboBox in WPF

Question

As an example take the following code:

public enum ExampleEnum { FooBar, BarFoo }

public class ExampleClass : INotifyPropertyChanged
{
    private ExampleEn         


        

Answer 1

I prefer not to use the name of enum in UI. I prefer use different value for user (DisplayMemberPath) and different for value (enum in this case) (SelectedValuePath). Those two values can be packed to KeyValuePair and stored in dictionary.

XAML

C#

public Dictionary ExampleEnumsWithCaptions { get; } =
    new Dictionary()
    {
        {ExampleEnum.FooBar, "Foo Bar"},
        {ExampleEnum.BarFoo, "Reversed Foo Bar"},
        //{ExampleEnum.None, "Hidden in UI"},
    };


private ExampleEnum example;
public ExampleEnum ExampleProperty
{
    get { return example; }
    set { /* set and notify */; }
}

EDIT: Compatible with the MVVM pattern.