我使用一个扩展方法:

public static class AttributesHelperExtension
    {
        public static string ToDescription(this Enum value)
        {
            var da = (DescriptionAttribute[])(value.GetType().GetField(value.ToString())).GetCustomAttributes(typeof(DescriptionAttribute), false);
            return da.Length > 0 ? da[0].Description : value.ToString();
        }
}

现在用:

public enum AuthenticationMethod
{
    [Description("FORMS")]
    FORMS = 1,
    [Description("WINDOWSAUTHENTICATION")]
    WINDOWSAUTHENTICATION = 2,
    [Description("SINGLESIGNON ")]
    SINGLESIGNON = 3
}

当你打电话时

AuthenticationMethod.FORMS.ToDescription()将得到“FORMS”。

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"

我想把这篇文章作为下面引用的帖子的评论，但不能，因为我没有足够的代表。代码包含一个错误，我想向试图使用这个解决方案的个人指出这一点:

[TypeConverter typeof (CustomEnumTypeConverter (typeof (MyEnum))) public enum MyEnum ｛ //自定义类型转换器将使用description属性 [描述(“自定义描述”)] ValueWithCustomDescription, //这将完全暴露。 确切的 ｝

应该是

[TypeConverter(typeof(CustomEnumTypeConverter<MyEnum>))]
public enum MyEnum
{
  // The custom type converter will use the description attribute
  [Description("A custom description")]
  ValueWithCustomDescription,

  // This will be exposed exactly.
  Exact
}

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……

更新:访问这个页面，8年后，在很长一段时间没有接触c#之后，看起来我的答案不再是最好的解决方案。我非常喜欢与属性-函数绑定的转换器解决方案。

如果你正在阅读这篇文章，请确保你也查看了其他答案。(提示:它们在这个上面)

和你们大多数人一样，我非常喜欢Jakub Šturc所选的答案，但我也非常讨厌复制粘贴代码，并尽可能少地这样做。

因此，我决定使用一个EnumBase类，从其中继承/内置大部分功能，从而使我能够专注于内容而不是行为。

这种方法的主要问题是基于这样一个事实，即尽管Enum值是类型安全的实例，但交互是与Enum Class类型的静态实现进行的。 所以在泛型魔法的帮助下，我想我终于得到了正确的组合。 希望有人能像我一样觉得这个有用。

我将从Jakub的例子开始，但是使用继承和泛型:

public sealed class AuthenticationMethod : EnumBase<AuthenticationMethod, int>
{
    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)
        : base( Value, Name ) { }
    public new static IEnumerable<AuthenticationMethod> All
    { get { return EnumBase<AuthenticationMethod, int>.All; } }
    public static explicit operator AuthenticationMethod(string str)
    { return Parse(str); }
}

这里是基类:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq; // for the .AsEnumerable() method call

// E is the derived type-safe-enum class
// - this allows all static members to be truly unique to the specific
//   derived class
public class EnumBase<E, T> where E: EnumBase<E, T>
{
    #region Instance code
    public T Value { get; private set; }
    public string Name { get; private set; }

    protected EnumBase(T EnumValue, string Name)
    {
        Value = EnumValue;
        this.Name = Name;
        mapping.Add(Name, this);
    }

    public override string ToString() { return Name; }
    #endregion

    #region Static tools
    static private readonly Dictionary<string, EnumBase<E, T>> mapping;
    static EnumBase() { mapping = new Dictionary<string, EnumBase<E, T>>(); }
    protected static E Parse(string name)
    {
        EnumBase<E, T> result;
        if (mapping.TryGetValue(name, out result))
        {
            return (E)result;
        }

        throw new InvalidCastException();
    }
    // This is protected to force the child class to expose it's own static
    // method.
    // By recreating this static method at the derived class, static
    // initialization will be explicit, promising the mapping dictionary
    // will never be empty when this method is called.
    protected static IEnumerable<E> All
    { get { return mapping.Values.AsEnumerable().Cast<E>(); } }
    #endregion
}