best way to bind enum propery in datagrid

Question

what is a best way to bind enum property to datagrid.currently i am using public property and return enum name from there is there any other way ?

Enumeration

public enum enStatus
{
    Draft = 1,
    Published = 2,
    Started = 3,
    Completed = 4
}

Model

class ModelA
{
  private int statudId;
  public string Status {  get { return Enum.GetName(typeof(enStatus),statudId); }
}

DataGrid

<DataGrid Name="dataGrdAssignments" Style="{StaticResource dataGridManageScreens}" SelectedCellsChanged="dataGrdAssignments_SelectedCellsChanged">
      <DataGrid.Columns>
        <DataGridTextColumn Header="Status" Width="150" Binding="{Binding Status}" ElementStyle="{StaticResource gridElementStyle}" EditingElementStyle="{StaticResource gridEditElementStyle}">
        </DataGridTextColumn>
      </DataGrid.Columns>
</DataGrid>

Mathieu · Accepted Answer · 2022-11-04T17:19:19.480

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Your approach works, but I'd prefer cleaning up your ViewModel by using a binding converter instead.

public class EnumConverter : IValueConverter
{

    public object Convert(object value, Type targetType, object parameter, CultureInfo culture)
    {
        return ((Enum)value).ToString();
    }

    public object ConvertBack(object value, Type targetType, object parameter, CultureInfo culture)
    {
        return  null;
    }
}

And in your XAML, something like this:

Binding="{Binding Status, Converter="{StaticResource ResourceKey=enumConverter}}"

Don't forget to declare your "enumConverter" (or however you'll decide to name it) in the resources section of your xaml file.

edited Nov 04 '22 at 17:19

answered Feb 24 '16 at 13:01

Mathieu

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note, that you don't need converter for each `enum` type. cast to base class `Enum` works fine: `((Enum)value).ToString()` – ASh Feb 24 '16 at 13:37
cast through enStatus is working but invalid cast exception through in case of enum `return ((Enum)value).ToString()` – Muhammad Faisal Feb 24 '16 at 14:58
What's the exception saying? – Mathieu Feb 24 '16 at 15:05
Unable to cast object of type 'System.Int32' to type 'System.Enum' – Muhammad Faisal Feb 25 '16 at 06:35
Make sure to bind on an enum (e.g.: public enStatus CurrentStatus {get;set;}) and not a int like public int statudId. – Mathieu Feb 25 '16 at 13:02
add ; at end of return ((Enum)value).ToString(); – hossein sedighian Nov 03 '22 at 05:29

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