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With respect to Ray Booysen, there is a bug in the code: Enum ToString with user friendly stringsEnum ToString with user friendly strings

You need to account for multiple attributes on the enum values.

public static string GetDescription<T>(this object enumerationValue) where T : struct { Type type = enumerationValue.GetType(); if (!type.IsEnum) { throw new ArgumentException("EnumerationValue must be of Enum type", "enumerationValue"); } //Tries to find a DescriptionAttribute for a potential friendly name //for the enum MemberInfo[] memberInfo = type.GetMember(enumerationValue.ToString()); if (memberInfo != null && memberInfo.Length > 0) { object[] attrs = memberInfo[0].GetCustomAttributes(typeof(DescriptionAttribute), false); if (attrs != null && attrs.Length > 0 && attrs.Where(t => t.GetType() == typeof(DescriptionAttribute)).FirstOrDefault() != null) { //Pull out the description value return ((DescriptionAttribute)attrs.Where(t=>t.GetType() == typeof(DescriptionAttribute)).FirstOrDefault()).Description; } } //If we have no description attribute, just return the ToString of the enum return enumerationValue.ToString();

With respect to Ray Booysen, there is a bug in the code: Enum ToString with user friendly strings

You need to account for multiple attributes on the enum values.

public static string GetDescription<T>(this object enumerationValue) where T : struct { Type type = enumerationValue.GetType(); if (!type.IsEnum) { throw new ArgumentException("EnumerationValue must be of Enum type", "enumerationValue"); } //Tries to find a DescriptionAttribute for a potential friendly name //for the enum MemberInfo[] memberInfo = type.GetMember(enumerationValue.ToString()); if (memberInfo != null && memberInfo.Length > 0) { object[] attrs = memberInfo[0].GetCustomAttributes(typeof(DescriptionAttribute), false); if (attrs != null && attrs.Length > 0 && attrs.Where(t => t.GetType() == typeof(DescriptionAttribute)).FirstOrDefault() != null) { //Pull out the description value return ((DescriptionAttribute)attrs.Where(t=>t.GetType() == typeof(DescriptionAttribute)).FirstOrDefault()).Description; } } //If we have no description attribute, just return the ToString of the enum return enumerationValue.ToString();

With respect to Ray Booysen, there is a bug in the code: Enum ToString with user friendly strings

You need to account for multiple attributes on the enum values.

public static string GetDescription<T>(this object enumerationValue) where T : struct { Type type = enumerationValue.GetType(); if (!type.IsEnum) { throw new ArgumentException("EnumerationValue must be of Enum type", "enumerationValue"); } //Tries to find a DescriptionAttribute for a potential friendly name //for the enum MemberInfo[] memberInfo = type.GetMember(enumerationValue.ToString()); if (memberInfo != null && memberInfo.Length > 0) { object[] attrs = memberInfo[0].GetCustomAttributes(typeof(DescriptionAttribute), false); if (attrs != null && attrs.Length > 0 && attrs.Where(t => t.GetType() == typeof(DescriptionAttribute)).FirstOrDefault() != null) { //Pull out the description value return ((DescriptionAttribute)attrs.Where(t=>t.GetType() == typeof(DescriptionAttribute)).FirstOrDefault()).Description; } } //If we have no description attribute, just return the ToString of the enum return enumerationValue.ToString();
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With respect to Ray Booysen, there is a bug in the code: Enum ToString with user friendly strings

You need to account for multiple attributes on the enum values.

public static string GetDescription<T>(this object enumerationValue) where T : struct { Type type = enumerationValue.GetType(); if (!type.IsEnum) { throw new ArgumentException("EnumerationValue must be of Enum type", "enumerationValue"); } //Tries to find a DescriptionAttribute for a potential friendly name //for the enum MemberInfo[] memberInfo = type.GetMember(enumerationValue.ToString()); if (memberInfo != null && memberInfo.Length > 0) { object[] attrs = memberInfo[0].GetCustomAttributes(typeof(DescriptionAttribute), false); if (attrs != null && attrs.Length > 0 && attrs.Where(t => t.GetType() == typeof(DescriptionAttribute)).FirstOrDefault() != null) { //Pull out the description value return ((DescriptionAttribute)attrs.Where(t=>t.GetType() == typeof(DescriptionAttribute)).FirstOrDefault()).Description; } } //If we have no description attribute, just return the ToString of the enum return enumerationValue.ToString();