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Hey everyone,

I am looking for a better way of accomplishing my task.  My thought process today is a little out of wack and I am getting frustrated so I am searching for answers.  I have created a custom error class.  When applying an error message, for example account not created, I am passing an int value through the query string.  The problem I am dealing with is how to keep the retrieving of the message value to display in a label's text without having to use a cumbersome switch statement.  I tried assigning the values to an enum, which I do not know enough about, but I have found that not to be a good way to handle it; at least it does not seem to be.  The code below is a smaller version of what I have going on.

public class Messages
{
    public static string ItemConfigNotFound = "Items configuration section could not be found";
    public static string ItemProviderInstantiationError = "Items default provider could not be instantiated";
    public static string CategoryIdUndefined = "Category 'Id' is not defined";
    public static string CategoryTitleUndefined = "Category 'Title' is not defined";
    public static string ItemIdUndefined = "Item 'id' not defined";
 
    public static string ItemTitleUndefined = "Item 'title' not defined";
    public static string ItemTitleIsNull = "Title must be a non null, non-empty string";
    public static string ItemRequiredAttributesMissing = "Some of the required attributes of Item are NULL in the Items table";
    public static string CategoryRequiredAttributesMissing = "Some of the required attributes of Category are NULL in the Category table";
    public static string NewsConfigSectionNotFound = "News configuration section could not be found";
}
 
//Error page receives a query string with an interger value named errMsg
 
if (Request.QueryString["Message"] != "")
            {
                errMsg = Request.QueryString["Message"];
            }
 
            switch (errMsg)
            {
                case 0:
                    break;
                case 1:
                    break;
                case 2:
                    break;
                case 3:
                    break;
                case 4:
                    break;
                case 5:
                    break;
                case 6:
                    break;
                case 7:
                    break;
}
 
//this is the problem: I have 24 error messages.  I would like to have more efficient code.

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