Cannot display enum values on Kendo grid

Question

In my MVC5 application I have an enum class as shown below and with this approach I can pass the enum values i.e. US, UK instead of United States\" from Controller to View.

Answer 1

You must set NotMapped attribute for custom property:

using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations.Schema;
public class VisitorViewModel
{
    [Key]
    public int VisitorID { get; set; }

    public Country Country { get; set; }

    [NotMapped]
    public string CountryName
    {
        get { return Country.GetDescription(); }
    }
}

and GetDescription() is next extension method:

public static string GetDescription(this Enum e)
{
    var field = e.ToString();
    var attribute = e.GetType().GetField(field).GetCustomAttributes(typeof(DescriptionAttribute), false).FirstOrDefault();

    return attribute != null ? ((DescriptionAttribute)attribute).Description : field;
}