Linking enum value with localized string resource

Question

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I want the most maintainable way of binding an enumeration and it\'s associated localized string values to something.

Answer 1

You could just crash immediately if someone doesn't update it correctly.

public String GetString(SourceFilterOption option)
{
    switch (option)
    {
        case SourceFilterOption.LastNumberOccurences:
            return CR.LAST_NUMBER_OF_OCCURANCES;
        case SourceFilterOption.LastNumberWeeks:
            return CR.LAST_NUMBER_OF_WEEKS;
        case SourceFilterOption.DateRange:
            return CR.DATE_RANGE;
        default:
            throw new Exception("SourceFilterOption " + option + " was not found");
    }
}