试试type-safe-enum模式。

public sealed class AuthenticationMethod {

    private readonly String name;
    private readonly int value;

    public static readonly AuthenticationMethod FORMS = new AuthenticationMethod (1, "FORMS");
    public static readonly AuthenticationMethod WINDOWSAUTHENTICATION = new AuthenticationMethod (2, "WINDOWS");
    public static readonly AuthenticationMethod SINGLESIGNON = new AuthenticationMethod (3, "SSN");        

    private AuthenticationMethod(int value, String name){
        this.name = name;
        this.value = value;
    }

    public override String ToString(){
        return name;
    }

}

更新 显式(或隐式)类型转换可以通过

adding static field with mapping private static readonly Dictionary<string, AuthenticationMethod> instance = new Dictionary<string,AuthenticationMethod>(); n.b. In order that the initialisation of the the "enum member" fields doesn't throw a NullReferenceException when calling the instance constructor, be sure to put the Dictionary field before the "enum member" fields in your class. This is because static field initialisers are called in declaration order, and before the static constructor, creating the weird and necessary but confusing situation that the instance constructor can be called before all static fields have been initialised, and before the static constructor is called. filling this mapping in instance constructor instance[name] = this; and adding user-defined type conversion operator public static explicit operator AuthenticationMethod(string str) { AuthenticationMethod result; if (instance.TryGetValue(str, out result)) return result; else throw new InvalidCastException(); }

使用方法

Enum.GetName(Type MyEnumType,  object enumvariable)  

如(假设Shipper是一个已定义的Enum)

Shipper x = Shipper.FederalExpress;
string s = Enum.GetName(typeof(Shipper), x);

Enum类上还有很多其他的静态方法也值得研究……

不幸的是，在枚举上获取属性的反射非常慢:

看这个问题:有人知道一种快速获取枚举值的自定义属性的方法吗?

. tostring()在枚举上也相当慢。

你可以为枚举写扩展方法:

public static string GetName( this MyEnum input ) {
    switch ( input ) {
        case MyEnum.WINDOWSAUTHENTICATION:
            return "Windows";
        //and so on
    }
}

这不是很好，但是很快，而且不需要对属性或字段名进行反射。

c# 6更新

如果你可以使用c# 6，那么操作符的新名称适用于枚举，因此nameof(myenume .WINDOWSAUTHENTICATION)将在编译时转换为“WINDOWSAUTHENTICATION”，使其成为获取枚举名称的最快方式。

注意，这将显式枚举转换为内联常量，因此它不适用于变量中的枚举。所以:

nameof(AuthenticationMethod.FORMS) == "FORMS"

但是…

var myMethod = AuthenticationMethod.FORMS;
nameof(myMethod) == "myMethod"

可以使用ToString()引用名称而不是值

Console.WriteLine("Auth method: {0}", AuthenticationMethod.Forms.ToString());

文档在这里:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/16c1xs4z.aspx

.．.如果你在Pascal情况下命名你的枚举(如ThisIsMyEnumValue = 1等)，那么你可以使用一个非常简单的正则表达式来打印友好的形式:

static string ToFriendlyCase(this string EnumString)
{
    return Regex.Replace(EnumString, "(?!^)([A-Z])", " $1");
}

可以很容易地从任何字符串调用:

Console.WriteLine("ConvertMyCrazyPascalCaseSentenceToFriendlyCase".ToFriendlyCase());

输出:

把我疯狂的帕斯卡格句转换成友好格句

这节省了在房子周围运行创建自定义属性并将它们附加到枚举或使用查找表将枚举值与友好字符串结合，最好的是它是自我管理的，可以用于任何Pascal Case字符串，这是无限可重用的。当然，它不允许您使用与解决方案提供的枚举不同的友好名称。

不过，我确实喜欢你针对更复杂场景的原始解决方案。你可以把你的解决方案更进一步，让你的GetStringValue成为你的枚举的扩展方法，然后你就不需要像StringEnum.GetStringValue…

public static string GetStringValue(this AuthenticationMethod value)
{
  string output = null;
  Type type = value.GetType();
  FieldInfo fi = type.GetField(value.ToString());
  StringValue[] attrs = fi.GetCustomAttributes(typeof(StringValue), false) as StringValue[];
  if (attrs.Length > 0)
    output = attrs[0].Value;
  return output;
}

然后你可以直接从你的枚举实例中访问它:

Console.WriteLine(AuthenticationMethod.SSO.GetStringValue());

我创建了一个基类，用于在. net中创建字符串值的枚举。它只是一个c#文件，你可以复制粘贴到你的项目中，或者通过名为StringEnum的NuGet包安装。GitHub回购

如果类被注释为xml comment <completitionlist>，智能感知将提示枚举名称。(适用于c#和VB)

类似于普通enum的用法:

///<completionlist cref="HexColor"/> 
class HexColor : StringEnum<HexColor>
{
    public static readonly HexColor Blue = Create("#FF0000");
    public static readonly HexColor Green = Create("#00FF00");
    public static readonly HexColor Red = Create("#000FF");
}

    // Static Parse Method
    HexColor.Parse("#FF0000") // => HexColor.Red
    HexColor.Parse("#ff0000", caseSensitive: false) // => HexColor.Red
    HexColor.Parse("invalid") // => throws InvalidOperationException

    // Static TryParse method.
    HexColor.TryParse("#FF0000") // => HexColor.Red
    HexColor.TryParse("#ff0000", caseSensitive: false) // => HexColor.Red
    HexColor.TryParse("invalid") // => null

    // Parse and TryParse returns the preexistent instances
    object.ReferenceEquals(HexColor.Parse("#FF0000"), HexColor.Red) // => true

    // Conversion from your `StringEnum` to `string`
    string myString1 = HexColor.Red.ToString(); // => "#FF0000"
    string myString2 = HexColor.Red; // => "#FF0000" (implicit cast)

Instalation:

将下面的StringEnum基类粘贴到项目中。(最新版本) 或者安装StringEnum NuGet包，它基于。net Standard 1.0，所以它可以运行在。net Core >= 1.0， . net Framework >= 4.5, Mono >= 4.6等等。

    /// <summary>
    /// Base class for creating string-valued enums in .NET.<br/>
    /// Provides static Parse() and TryParse() methods and implicit cast to string.
    /// </summary>
    /// <example> 
    /// <code>
    /// class Color : StringEnum &lt;Color&gt;
    /// {
    ///     public static readonly Color Blue = Create("Blue");
    ///     public static readonly Color Red = Create("Red");
    ///     public static readonly Color Green = Create("Green");
    /// }
    /// </code>
    /// </example>
    /// <typeparam name="T">The string-valued enum type. (i.e. class Color : StringEnum&lt;Color&gt;)</typeparam>
    public abstract class StringEnum<T> : IEquatable<T> where T : StringEnum<T>, new()
    {
        protected string Value;
        private static Dictionary<string, T> valueDict = new Dictionary<string, T>();
        protected static T Create(string value)
        {
            if (value == null)
                return null; // the null-valued instance is null.

            var result = new T() { Value = value };
            valueDict.Add(value, result);
            return result;
        }

        public static implicit operator string(StringEnum<T> enumValue) => enumValue.Value;
        public override string ToString() => Value;

        public static bool operator !=(StringEnum<T> o1, StringEnum<T> o2) => o1?.Value != o2?.Value;
        public static bool operator ==(StringEnum<T> o1, StringEnum<T> o2) => o1?.Value == o2?.Value;

        public override bool Equals(object other) => this.Value.Equals((other as T)?.Value ?? (other as string));
        bool IEquatable<T>.Equals(T other) => this.Value.Equals(other.Value);
        public override int GetHashCode() => Value.GetHashCode();

        /// <summary>
        /// Parse the <paramref name="value"/> specified and returns a valid <typeparamref name="T"/> or else throws InvalidOperationException.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="value">The string value representad by an instance of <typeparamref name="T"/>. Matches by string value, not by the member name.</param>
        /// <param name="caseSensitive">If true, the strings must match case and takes O(log n). False allows different case but is little bit slower (O(n))</param>
        public static T Parse(string value, bool caseSensitive = true)
        {
            var result = TryParse(value, caseSensitive);
            if (result == null)
                throw new InvalidOperationException((value == null ? "null" : $"'{value}'") + $" is not a valid {typeof(T).Name}");

            return result;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Parse the <paramref name="value"/> specified and returns a valid <typeparamref name="T"/> or else returns null.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="value">The string value representad by an instance of <typeparamref name="T"/>. Matches by string value, not by the member name.</param>
        /// <param name="caseSensitive">If true, the strings must match case. False allows different case but is slower: O(n)</param>
        public static T TryParse(string value, bool caseSensitive = true)
        {
            if (value == null) return null;
            if (valueDict.Count == 0) System.Runtime.CompilerServices.RuntimeHelpers.RunClassConstructor(typeof(T).TypeHandle); // force static fields initialization
            if (caseSensitive)
            {
                if (valueDict.TryGetValue(value, out T item))
                    return item;
                else
                    return null;
            }
            else
            {
                // slower O(n) case insensitive search
                return valueDict.FirstOrDefault(f => f.Key.Equals(value, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase)).Value;
                // Why Ordinal? => https://esmithy.net/2007/10/15/why-stringcomparisonordinal-is-usually-the-right-choice/
            }
        }
    }

这里有很多很棒的答案，但在我的情况下，并没有解决我想要的“字符串enum”，这是:

可用在switch语句中，例如switch(myEnum) 可以在函数参数中使用，例如foo(myEnum类型) 可以引用，例如myEnum。FirstElement 我可以使用字符串，例如foo("FirstElement") == foo(myenumer .FirstElement)

1、2和4实际上可以用一个字符串的c#类型定义来解决(因为字符串在c#中是可切换的)

3可以通过静态const字符串来求解。所以如果你有同样的需求，这是最简单的方法:

public sealed class Types
{

    private readonly String name;

    private Types(String name)
    {
        this.name = name;

    }

    public override String ToString()
    {
        return name;
    }

    public static implicit operator Types(string str)
    {
        return new Types(str);

    }
    public static implicit operator string(Types str)
    {
        return str.ToString();
    }


    #region enum

    public const string DataType = "Data";
    public const string ImageType = "Image";
    public const string Folder = "Folder";
    #endregion

}

这允许例如:

    public TypeArgs(Types SelectedType)
    {
        Types SelectedType = SelectedType
    }

and

public TypeObject CreateType(Types type)
    {
        switch (type)
        {

            case Types.ImageType:
              //
                break;

            case Types.DataType:
             //
                break;

        }
    }

CreateType可以用字符串或类型调用。然而，缺点是任何字符串都是自动有效的enum，这可以被修改，但它将需要某种init函数…或者可能使它们显式转换内部?

现在，如果一个int值对你来说很重要(也许是比较速度)，你可以使用Jakub Šturc的一些想法，做一些疯狂的事情，这是我的尝试:

    public sealed class Types
{
    private static readonly Dictionary<string, Types> strInstance = new Dictionary<string, Types>();
    private static readonly Dictionary<int, Types> intInstance = new Dictionary<int, Types>();

    private readonly String name;
    private static int layerTypeCount = 0;
    private int value;
    private Types(String name)
    {
        this.name = name;
        value = layerTypeCount++;
        strInstance[name] = this;
        intInstance[value] = this;
    }

    public override String ToString()
    {
        return name;
    }


    public static implicit operator Types(int val)
    {
        Types result;
        if (intInstance.TryGetValue(val, out result))
            return result;
        else
            throw new InvalidCastException();
    }

    public static implicit operator Types(string str)
    {
        Types result;
        if (strInstance.TryGetValue(str, out result))
        {
            return result;
        }
        else
        {
            result = new Types(str);
            return result;
        }

    }
    public static implicit operator string(Types str)
    {
        return str.ToString();
    }

    public static bool operator ==(Types a, Types b)
    {
        return a.value == b.value;
    }
    public static bool operator !=(Types a, Types b)
    {
        return a.value != b.value;
    }

    #region enum

    public const string DataType = "Data";
    public const string ImageType = "Image";

    #endregion

}

但是当然"Types bob = 4;"是没有意义的，除非你先对它们进行初始化，这就有点失败了……

但理论上a型== b型会更快…