Introduction to System.Enum

One problem that VB6 programmers often ran into was that there was no easy way to extract the matching string for a value. This typically led to clumsy conversion code and/or database tables that had to be maintained whenever the Enum changed. However, in .NET, we now have the System.Enum object to take care of this situation and more. In this article, we will take a look at some of the useful functions in this object.