Getting attributes of Enum's value

Question

I would like to know if it is possible to get attributes of the enum values and not of the enum itself? For example, suppose I have the following enum:

using System.ComponentModel; // for DescriptionAttribute  enum FunkyAttributesEnum {     [Description("Name With Spaces1")]     NameWithoutSpaces1,         [Description("Name With Spaces2")]     NameWithoutSpaces2 } 

What I want is given the enum type, produce 2-tuples of enum string value and its description.

Value was easy:

Array values = System.Enum.GetValues(typeof(FunkyAttributesEnum)); foreach (int value in values)     Tuple.Value = Enum.GetName(typeof(FunkyAttributesEnum), value); 

But how do I get description attribute's value, to populate Tuple.Desc? I can think of how to do it if the Attribute belongs to the enum itself, but I am at a loss as to how to get it from the value of the enum.

Answer 1

This should do what you need.

try {   var enumType = typeof(FunkyAttributesEnum);   var memberInfos =    enumType.GetMember(FunkyAttributesEnum.NameWithoutSpaces1.ToString());   var enumValueMemberInfo = memberInfos.FirstOrDefault(m =>    m.DeclaringType == enumType);   var valueAttributes =    enumValueMemberInfo.GetCustomAttributes(typeof(DescriptionAttribute), false);   var description = ((DescriptionAttribute)valueAttributes[0]).Description; } catch {     return FunkyAttributesEnum.NameWithoutSpaces1.ToString() }