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……

只需使用ToString()方法

public enum any{Tomato=0,Melon,Watermelon}

要引用字符串Tomato，只需使用

any.Tomato.ToString();

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/
            }
        }
    }

如果你想一下我们要解决的问题，它根本不是我们需要的枚举。我们需要一个对象，它允许一定数量的值相互关联;换句话说，定义一个类。

Jakub Šturc的类型安全enum模式是我在这里看到的最佳选择。

看看它:

它有一个私有构造函数，因此只有类本身可以定义允许的值。 它是一个密封类，因此不能通过继承修改值。 它是类型安全的，允许您的方法只需要该类型。 访问这些值不会对反射性能造成影响。 最后，可以修改它以将两个以上的字段关联在一起，例如Name、Description和numeric Value。

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"