Accessing "enum" values in .NET

Accessing enum values are very interesting in this sense that if you directly call enum item then it will return the left part of equal (=) sign. If you convert the enum item into integer then you will get right part of equal (=) sign. Lets see an example.

public enum NeedRefreshDataSource
    {
        Yes = 1,
        No = 2
    }


Now,

if you write NeedRefreshDataSource.Yes then you will get - Yes which is NeedRefreshDataSource type value.

if you write NeedRefreshDataSource.yes.ToString() then you will get - "Yes" which is string type value.

if you write Convert.ToInt32(NeedRefreshDataSource.yes) then you will get - 1 which is integer type value.

if you write Convert.ToInt32(NeedRefreshDataSource.yes).ToString() then you will get - "1" which is string type value.




Happy Coding...