An enum is a value type. Value types in .Net are generally stored in the stack. You typically use enums to represent named constants in your application. There are two types of enums: simple enums ...

ENUM is an IETF standard (RFC 2916) for mapping the public telephone number address space into the Domain Name System (DNS). In the iLabs, we use ENUM to centralize our call routing information in ...

Although it is part of the java.util.concurrent package, the TimeUnit enum is useful in many contexts outside of concurrency. In this post, I look at how the TimeUnit enum can be used even in code ...

If you decide on using an Enum with enumerated values in your Entity Framework class, here are the tools you'll need to make it work. But an enumerated value shouldn't be your first choice. Enumerated ...

Sometimes using ValidateSet isn't enough -- for instance, when you have multiple functions with the same parameter that you need to perform a task on. PowerShell has a data type called an enum, which ...

There are some differences, however, that you need to be aware of. For example, in a ProtoBuf every value i in the enumeration must be explicitly assigned a position and, because ProtoBuf depends on ...