how do you return a value for an enum property type?

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Bob

It should be simple, but I'm stuck on this one... how do you return a value for
an enum property type?

TIA,
Bob
 
Bob said:
It should be simple, but I'm stuck on this one... how do you return a
value for an enum property type?
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I'm not sure if this is what you are looking for:

Property MyProp() As FormBorderStyle
Get
Return FormBorderStyle.None
End Get
Set(ByVal Value As FormBorderStyle)

End Set
End Property

(the example doesn't make sense but it shows...)
 
An example to clarify:

Public ReadOnly Property SomeEnum() As System.Enum
Get
'How do I return RandomEnum ???
End Get
End Property

Public Enum RandomEnum
member1
member2
End Enum

Bob
 
Bob said:
An example to clarify:

Public ReadOnly Property SomeEnum() As System.Enum
Get
'How do I return RandomEnum ???
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I don't know whether I understand your problem:

Return RandomEnum.member1

End Get
End Property

Public Enum RandomEnum
member1
member2
End Enum
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But, why don't you declare the property this way?

Public ReadOnly Property SomeEnum() As RandomEnum

This also enables intellisense after typing "return "
 
I don't want to return an Enum member. I want to return the Enum itself.

But I guess I'll be stuck with returning its type instead. Oh well.

Bob
 
Return RandomEnum.member1 will return 0
Return RandomEnum.member2 will return 1

You want to return the enum itself? You can refer to it's elements from the
class where you design it?
 
Bob said:
I don't want to return an Enum member. I want to return the Enum
itself.

But I guess I'll be stuck with returning its type instead. Oh
well.
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The Enum itself *is* a type, so you can

Return GetType(RandomEnum)

and change the property type to "As System.Type"
 
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