Converting a long to an Enum Value

[Sylvain Bouche]

I'm looking for some help of converting a long to a type enum in something that would be similar to this:

public object ToActionType(Long myval)
{
return (object)((ActionTypes)myval)
}

:sad: but the trick is that I don't know the enum just the type of the enum...(I also know for a fact that myval is always part of the enum type t.)

public object ToEnum(Long myval,Type t)
{
return ?????
}

Could somebody explain how to achieve that? :o

[f1 fan]

I am not sure why you want to return an object instead of the ActionValue type but you want

public object ToActionType(Long myval)
{
int myIntVal = (int)myval;
ActionTypes myActionType = (ActionTypes) myIntVal;
return (object) myActionType;
}

[Sylvain Bouche]

The answer I was looking for was the static function of class Enum...
Enum.ToObject(t,myval)
As specified in the email I didn't know the enum type at the time of call otherwise my first function work perfectly and I wouldn't have a function in the first place.
Thanks anyway for trying to help much appreciated.

[f1 fan]

Can you use the string value of the enum instead of the long? You say that you know that myVal is always part of the enum t. so i am assuming you are storing it somewhere. If you could get the string value of the enum for myVal instead then it is a simple case of calling Enum.Parse(t, myValString) which returns an object. Does that help?

if you dont have the string value then you try
string myValString = Enum.GetName(t, myVal);
object theObject = Enum.Parse(t, myValString);

Please ensure you use the Enum not enum.

Hope it helps