What's the best practice way to convert enum to string?

Posted by dario on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by dario
Published on 2010-03-31T21:57:54Z Indexed on 2010/03/31 22:03 UTC
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Hi. I have enum like this:

public enum ObectTypes
{
    TypeOne,
    TypeTwo,
    TypeThree,
    ...
    TypeTwenty
 }

then I need to convert this enum to string. Now Im doing this that way:

public string ConvertToCustomTypeName(ObjectTypes typeObj)
{
    string result = string.Empty;
    switch (typeObj)
    {
        case ObjectTypes.TypeOne: result = "This is type T123"; break;
        case ObjectTypes.TypeTwo: result = "This is type T234"; break;
        ...
        case ObjectTypes.TypeTwenty: result = "This is type last"; break;
    }
    return result;
}

Im quite sure that there is better way do do this, Im looking for some good practice solution.

Thanks in advance.

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