asked on 9/5/2013

How to get Description value of a Enum in C#

I have following code and would like to know how to get Description value of a Enum from Program class

public enum Samplecolumns
    {
        [Description("one")]
        col1=1,
        [Description("two")]
        col2=2,
        [Description("three")]
        col3=3
    }


public class Sample
    {
          public Samplecolumns Column { get; set; }
    }


public class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
                //How to get Description of enum ?
         
        }
    }

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Thanks in Advance

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ksd123

9/10/2013

Rikin Shah

9/5/2013

int value = 1;
string description = Enumerations.GetEnumDescription((Samplecolumns)value);

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ksd123

9/10/2013

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Thank you

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