Convert Enum to String in C#

Enum type provides the GetName() and GetNames() methods which we can use to Convert Enum to String in C#.

Enum.GetName() method

GetName() method returns an equivalent string value for a given enum value.

We have declared the following enum EmployeeDepartment:

public enum EmployeeDepartment
{
IT,
HR,
Admin
}

If you have a variable of type EmployeeDepartment  then you can convert it to equivalent string value by using the GetName() method as:

static void Main(string[] args)
{
EmployeeDepartment empDept = EmployeeDepartment.IT;
string name = Enum.GetName(typeof(EmployeeDepartment),empDept);

}

Above program will print the following:

Enum.GetNames() method

GetName() method returns equivalent string values(string array) for a given enum.If we want to retrieve string values for the enum EmployeeDepartment declared above then we can use the following logic:

string[] empTypes = Enum.GetNames(typeof(EmployeeDepartment));

 

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