Dynamic Enums?

[jfrost10]

Is it possible to create dynamic enumerators?

Like, get a list of items out of a database and create an enumerator from them instead of hard coding them in the code?

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[chiph]

Yes, but it's not worth the very large effort required.

Basically, you would retrieve the list from the database, then create a source module (*.vb) dynamically (i.e. via string concatenation) that contains your enum, then call the vb or CSharp compiler (csc.exe), then late-bind to the resulting assembly.

Try using an ArrayList collection instead.

Chip H.


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[jfrost10]

OMG, thats way too much overhead.

I have a co-worker thats enum crazy, although I think that using collections would be much easier. Just wasn't sure if maybe there was an easy way to get the best of both worlds.

Apparantly there isn't.


Thanks Chip.

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