Have you ever faced the problem that extending enum type by new values may cause unpredicted behavior of the application? I recently have. As the solution for this problem I figure out how to design enum values so they can be easily sortable and easily expandable in future, causing no side effect.
By Mirek on (tags: enums, categories: code)Part 3. Displaying and binding localized names of enum values in ASP.NET MVC 3 application To display localized enums in ASP.NET MVC 3 application we use custom description attribute described in Part 2) and extension method to get the description for each enum value. The type converter is not useful here so we need another approach to achieve the goal. Let’s generate the editi…
By Mirek on (tags: ASP.NET MVC, Code First, Entity Framework, enums, lozalization, mvvm, WPF, categories: code)Part 2. Displaying localized names of enum values in WPF application To achieve the human readable enums I have performed following steps. For each language I want to support I have added a resource (.resx) file with key equals the string representation of the enum value. Then we decorate our enum values with Display attribute as follows 1: public enum Status 2: {…
By Mirek on (tags: ASP.NET MVC, Code First, Entity Framework, enums, localization, mvvm, WPF, categories: code)In part 1) I would like to present the solution of using enum types with Entity Framework Code-First (EF CF later). Then in part 2) I would like to show how easily display these enums in WPF MVVM and in Part 3) I will try to explain my approach for displaying and binding localized enums in ASP.NET MVC 3 application. EF CF approach is still developed and in version 4.1 it …
By Mirek on (tags: ASP.NET MVC, Code First, Entity Framework, enums, localization, mvvm, WPF, categories: code, web)