How to work with Enums in Entity Framework?

Question

What is the best way to work with Enums in Entity Framework?

Remarks: I'm using EF 3 againts Firebird.

Answer 1

This is one of those irritating things about EF. Will not be supporting it yet!

Or you can do something like:

public MyEnum MyEnumProperty  
{  
  get { return (MyEnum) InnerEnumProperty; }  
  set { InnerEnumProperty = (int) value; }  
}

But it makes me feel dirty.

Answer 2

There is a somewhat better way to do it in EF 4. Unfortunately, it won't work in EF 1.

Here's another approach.