I have declared the Boolean flags as below.
[Flags]
public enum StudentStatus
{
True = 1,
False = 2
}
I'm getting the value through the DataValues collections in the below line and I want to assign it into the below property.
var student= new Student();
student.Status= StudentInfo.Data.DataValues
.Where(m => m.FieldName.Equals("Status"))
.Select(m => m.StatusValue).SingleOrDefault();
Since you are using .Net Framework 4 you can use Enum.TryParse method.
var student= new Student();
string status = StudentInfo.Data.DataValues
.Where(m => m.FieldName.Equals("Status"))
.Select(m => m.StatusValue).SingleOrDefault();
StudentStatus studentStatus;
Enum.TryParse(status, out studentStatus);
student.Status = studentStatus;
If the parse operation fails, result contains the default value of the StudentStatus.
First of all, that enum is not well suited for being a [Flags] enum. [Flags] is only used if many different values can be active at one time. It should be declared as:
// Removed [Flags] - not appropriate here.
public enum StudentStatus
{
True = 1,
False = 2
}
In any case, you can use Enum.Parse to parse the string back into an enum. Like so:
string statusString = StudentInfo.Data.DataValues
.Where(m => m.FieldName.Equals("Status"))
.Select(m => m.StatusValue).SingleOrDefault();
student.Status = (StudentStatus) Enum.Parse(typeof(StudentStatus), statusString);
This will work for both [Flags] and normal enums.
