Binding enums to combobox in WPF.

Question

you know I've read articles about binding enums to combobox but I cannot understand ( in www.wpftutorial.com and stackoverflow.com)
who can solcey problem?
who can teach me how can I bind these to each other ?!

Answer 1

I faced this problem back then too, mate.

The easiest way to do this is by telling the datasource that you gonna fill it with enum-values that got already declared.

Here is the easiest example i can image:

public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
fillCombobox();
}
public void fillCombobox()
{
comboBox1.DataSource = Enum.GetValues(typeof(myEnum));
}

public enum myEnum
{
zero = 0,
one = 1,
two = 2,
three = 3
};
Here combobox1 is your blank combobox that will be filled by enum values stored in your public enum myEnum{}.

Hopefully it helps a bit.
KK.

Answer 2

This is difficult to do because the combobox does not understand that the enum is actually a list. So you have to make it a list for the combobox.

Do you use MVVM ?

Do you want to solve the problem in the XAML
or
in the code behind