How can I populate a WPF combo box in XAML with all the items from a given enum?

Question

Say I have an enum with four values:

public enum CompassHeading
{
    North,
    South,
    East,
    West
}

What XAML would be required to

Answer 1

I think using an ObjectDataProvider to do that is really tedious... I have a more concise suggestion (yes I know, it's a bit late...), using a markup extension :

Here is the code for the markup extension :

[MarkupExtensionReturnType(typeof(object[]))]
public class EnumValuesExtension : MarkupExtension
{
    public EnumValuesExtension()
    {
    }

    public EnumValuesExtension(Type enumType)
    {
        this.EnumType = enumType;
    }

    [ConstructorArgument("enumType")]
    public Type EnumType { get; set; }

    public override object ProvideValue(IServiceProvider serviceProvider)
    {
        if (this.EnumType == null)
            throw new ArgumentException("The enum type is not set");
        return Enum.GetValues(this.EnumType);
    }
}