A prettier way to use Enums

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I think we have all struggled with using Enums with Linq, most especially when trying to plug them into your results.  A far better approach is to decorate your classes with them.  Let me explain

We start by declaring a typical Enum class - something like this.

  public enum OrderStatus
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Pending
        /// </summary>
        Pending = 10,
        /// <summary>
        /// Processing
        /// </summary>
        Processing = 20,
        /// <summary>
        /// Complete
        /// </summary>
        Complete = 30,
        /// <summary>
        /// Cancelled
        /// </summary>
        Cancelled = 40
    }

Then when we want to take advantage of it - in our Orders class we declare a string of OrderStatus - keep in mind our database only has OrderStatusId.  Here is what this property looks like.

 public OrderStatus OrderStatus
        {
            get
            {
                return (OrderStatus)this.OrderStatusId;
            }
            set
            {
                this.OrderStatusId = (int)value;
            }
        }

In our query we only return the OrderStatusId but then on the page we use "OrderStatus" and the value returned is the string from our Enum.

Voila - no struggling within the Linq.

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