Criteria: Performance, Performance, Performance.
I need a way to convert a uint, int, etc into it's enum equivalent. What's the fastest way I can do that using C#?
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A:
Why can't you just do a direct cast?
MyEnum enumVar = (MyEnum)intVar;
Charles Graham
2008-11-16 06:51:46
Argg, was just gonna say that :)
leppie
2008-11-16 06:52:11
I know. That happens to me all the time. ;)
Charles Graham
2008-11-16 06:54:56
Thanks! Wow, that was much easier then some other weird solutions I saw out there.
danmine
2008-11-16 09:04:45
Enums to and from ints is trivial. In fact, I'm pretty sure that the compiler handles 99% of any optimizations that you would need to worry about. Now when you go back and forth from strings is where it can get funky.
Charles Graham
2008-11-16 09:17:44
The only problem with this is that you can cast values that are invalid and you won't get an exception. Enum.Parse() is much safer, but it does involve overhead from a performance perspective.
OJ
2008-11-16 09:21:28