Access Enumeration Value

[Mondeo]

Hi,

 

Got an enumeration which i've iterated through and added its members to a combobox.

 

Dim s As New Nevron.UI.WinForm.Controls.ColorScheme
Dim schemes As Array
schemes = system.Enum.GetValues(GetType(Nevron.UI.WinForm.Controls.ColorScheme))
       Dim scheme As Nevron.UI.WinForm.Controls.ColorScheme
       For Each scheme In schemes
           cboPalletteSelect.Items.Add(scheme)
       Next

 

When the user selects a scheme I need to store the integer value of the enum in my database, but how do I access it?

 

cboPalletteSelect.SelectedItem only returns a string, how to I get the underlying index of the selected enum?

 

Thanks

[MrPaul]

SelectedIndex and SelectedValue

 

Do you need the selected value's index, or the actual enum value? To retrieve the index you can use the SelectedIndex property. To retrieve the enum value you can use the SelectedValue property, or cast the SelectedItem to an Integer - the item is probably not a string but an instance of the ColorScheme type.

 

Good luck :cool:

[PlausiblyDamp]

You could always use the System.Enum.Parse method to convert the string back to the Enum and then get it's underlying value.