C++/CLI : Casting from unmanaged enum to managed enum

Question

What is the correct way of casting (in C++/CLI) from a native code enum to a managed code enum which contain the same enum values? Is

Answer 1

It depends. for example, if you have a CLI enum that has an underlying type of ushort, it cannot hold a vallue of 257. By default the CLI enum is based on int, which should be fine in most cases. If your native C++ code use unsigned 32bit ints/64bit ints as the underlying type if enums, switch the base of your CLI enum to UInt32, long or ulong.