不要使用枚举，使用静态类。

取代

private enum PublishStatuses{
    NotCompleted,
    Completed,
    Error
};

with

private static class PublishStatuses{
    public static readonly string NotCompleted = "Not Completed";
    public static readonly string Completed = "Completed";
    public static readonly string Error = "Error";
};

它是这样使用的

PublishStatuses.NotCompleted; // "Not Completed"

使用顶级“扩展方法”解决方案的问题:

私有枚举通常在另一个类中使用。扩展方法解决方案在那里无效，因为它必须在它自己的类中。这个解决方案可以是私有的，并嵌入到另一个类中。

这是对Ray Booysen的代码的更新，使用通用的GetCustomAttributes方法和LINQ使事情变得更整洁。

    /// <summary>
    /// Gets the value of the <see cref="T:System.ComponentModel.DescriptionAttribute"/> on an struct, including enums.  
    /// </summary>
    /// <typeparam name="T">The type of the struct.</typeparam>
    /// <param name="enumerationValue">A value of type <see cref="T:System.Enum"/></param>
    /// <returns>If the struct has a Description attribute, this method returns the description.  Otherwise it just calls ToString() on the struct.</returns>
    /// <remarks>Based on http://stackoverflow.com/questions/479410/enum-tostring/479417#479417, but useful for any struct.</remarks>
    public static string GetDescription<T>(this T enumerationValue) where T : struct
    {
        return enumerationValue.GetType().GetMember(enumerationValue.ToString())
                .SelectMany(mi => mi.GetCustomAttributes<DescriptionAttribute>(false),
                    (mi, ca) => ca.Description)
                .FirstOrDefault() ?? enumerationValue.ToString();
    }   

你可以使用Humanizer包人性化枚举的可能性。一个eaxample:

enum PublishStatusses
{
    [Description("Custom description")]
    NotCompleted,
    AlmostCompleted,
    Error
};

然后你可以直接在enum上使用Humanize扩展方法:

var st1 = PublishStatusses.NotCompleted;
var str1 = st1.Humanize(); // will result in Custom description

var st2 = PublishStatusses.AlmostCompleted;
var str2 = st2.Humanize(); // will result in Almost completed (calculated automaticaly)

其他一些避免类/引用类型的更基本的选项:

数组的方法 嵌套结构方法

数组的方法

private struct PublishStatusses
{
    public static string[] Desc = {
        "Not Completed",
        "Completed",
        "Error"
    };

    public enum Id
    {
        NotCompleted = 0,
        Completed,
        Error
    };
}

使用

string desc = PublishStatusses.Desc[(int)PublishStatusses.Id.Completed];

嵌套结构方法

private struct PublishStatusses
{
    public struct NotCompleted
    {
        public const int Id = 0;
        public const string Desc = "Not Completed";
    }

    public struct Completed
    {
        public const int Id = 1;
        public const string Desc = "Completed";
    }

    public struct Error
    {
        public const int Id = 2;
        public const string Desc = "Error";
    }            
}

使用

int id = PublishStatusses.NotCompleted.Id;
string desc = PublishStatusses.NotCompleted.Desc;

更新(03/09/2018)

扩展方法和上面第一种技术的混合。

我更喜欢将枚举定义在它们“所属”的位置(最接近它们的起源源，而不是某个通用的全局名称空间)。

namespace ViewModels
{
    public class RecordVM
    {
        //public enum Enum { Minutes, Hours }
        public struct Enum
        {
            public enum Id { Minutes, Hours }
            public static string[] Name = { "Minute(s)", "Hour(s)" };
        }
    }
}

扩展方法似乎适合于公共区域，枚举的“本地化”定义现在使扩展方法更加详细。

namespace Common
{
    public static class EnumExtensions
    {
        public static string Name(this RecordVM.Enum.Id id)
        {
            return RecordVM.Enum.Name[(int)id];
        }
    }   
}

枚举及其扩展方法的使用示例。

namespace Views
{
    public class RecordView 
    {
        private RecordDataFieldList<string, string> _fieldUnit;

        public RecordView()
        {
            _fieldUnit.List = new IdValueList<string, string>
            {            
                new ListItem<string>((int)RecordVM.Enum.Id.Minutes, RecordVM.Enum.Id.Minutes.Name()),
                new ListItem<string>((int)RecordVM.Enum.Id.Hours, RecordVM.Enum.Id.Hours.Name())
            };
        }

        private void Update()
        {    
            RecordVM.Enum.Id eId = DetermineUnit();

            _fieldUnit.Input.Text = _fieldUnit.List.SetSelected((int)eId).Value;
        }
    }
}

注意:我实际上决定消除Enum包装器(和Name数组)，因为名称字符串最好来自资源(即配置文件或DB)而不是硬编码，并且因为我最终将扩展方法放在ViewModels名称空间中(只是在不同的“CommonVM.cs”文件中)。此外，整个。id的事情变得令人分心和麻烦。

namespace ViewModels
{
    public class RecordVM
    {
        public enum Enum { Minutes, Hours }
        //public struct Enum
        //{
        //    public enum Id { Minutes, Hours }
        //    public static string[] Name = { "Minute(s)", "Hour(s)" };
        //}
    }
}

CommonVM.cs

//namespace Common
namespace ViewModels
{
    public static class EnumExtensions
    {
        public static string Name(this RecordVM.Enum id)
        {
            //return RecordVM.Enum.Name[(int)id];
            switch (id)
            {
                case RecordVM.Enum.Minutes: return "Minute(s)";                    
                case RecordVM.Enum.Hours: return "Hour(s)";
                default: return null;
            }
        }
    }   
}

枚举及其扩展方法的使用示例。

namespace Views
{
    public class RecordView 
    {
        private RecordDataFieldList<string, string> _fieldUnit

        public RecordView()
        {
            _fieldUnit.List = new IdValueList<string, string>
            {            
                new ListItem<string>((int)RecordVM.Enum.Id.Minutes, RecordVM.Enum.Id.Minutes.Name()),
                new ListItem<string>((int)RecordVM.Enum.Id.Hours, RecordVM.Enum.Id.Hours.Name())
            };
        }

        private void Update()
        {    
            RecordVM.Enum eId = DetermineUnit();

            _fieldUnit.Input.Text = _fieldUnit.List.SetSelected((int)eId).Value;
        }
    }
}

也许我遗漏了一些东西，但是枚举。getname有什么问题?

public string GetName(PublishStatusses value)
{
    return Enum.GetName(typeof(PublishStatusses), value)
}

编辑:对于用户友好的字符串，你需要通过.resource来完成国际化/本地化，并且使用基于enum键的固定键比使用相同的decorator属性更好。

我碰巧是个VB。这是我的版本，结合了DescriptionAttribute方法和扩展方法。一、研究结果:

Imports System.ComponentModel ' For <Description>

Module Module1
  ''' <summary>
  ''' An Enum type with three values and descriptions
  ''' </summary>
  Public Enum EnumType
    <Description("One")>
    V1 = 1

    ' This one has no description
    V2 = 2

    <Description("Three")>
    V3 = 3
  End Enum

  Sub Main()
    ' Description method is an extension in EnumExtensions
    For Each v As EnumType In [Enum].GetValues(GetType(EnumType))
      Console.WriteLine("Enum {0} has value {1} and description {2}",
        v,
        CInt(v),
        v.Description
      )
    Next
    ' Output:
    ' Enum V1 has value 1 and description One
    ' Enum V2 has value 2 and description V2
    ' Enum V3 has value 3 and description Three
  End Sub
End Module

基本内容:一个名为EnumType的枚举，有三个值V1, V2和V3。“魔法”发生在控制台。在Sub Main()中调用WriteLine，其中最后一个参数只是v.Description。它为V1返回“1”，为V2返回“V2”，为V3返回“3”。这个description方法实际上是一个扩展方法，定义在另一个名为EnumExtensions的模块中:

Option Strict On
Option Explicit On
Option Infer Off

Imports System.Runtime.CompilerServices
Imports System.Reflection
Imports System.ComponentModel

Module EnumExtensions
  Private _Descriptions As New Dictionary(Of String, String)

  ''' <summary>
  ''' This extension method adds a Description method
  ''' to all enum members. The result of the method is the
  ''' value of the Description attribute if present, else
  ''' the normal ToString() representation of the enum value.
  ''' </summary>
  <Extension>
  Public Function Description(e As [Enum]) As String
    ' Get the type of the enum
    Dim enumType As Type = e.GetType()
    ' Get the name of the enum value
    Dim name As String = e.ToString()

    ' Construct a full name for this enum value
    Dim fullName As String = enumType.FullName + "." + name

    ' See if we have looked it up earlier
    Dim enumDescription As String = Nothing
    If _Descriptions.TryGetValue(fullName, enumDescription) Then
      ' Yes we have - return previous value
      Return enumDescription
    End If

    ' Find the value of the Description attribute on this enum value
    Dim members As MemberInfo() = enumType.GetMember(name)
    If members IsNot Nothing AndAlso members.Length > 0 Then
      Dim descriptions() As Object = members(0).GetCustomAttributes(GetType(DescriptionAttribute), False)
      If descriptions IsNot Nothing AndAlso descriptions.Length > 0 Then
        ' Set name to description found
        name = DirectCast(descriptions(0), DescriptionAttribute).Description
      End If
    End If

    ' Save the name in the dictionary:
    _Descriptions.Add(fullName, name)

    ' Return the name
    Return name
  End Function
End Module

因为使用Reflection查找描述属性很慢，所以查找也缓存在一个私有Dictionary中，该Dictionary是按需填充的。

(对不起，VB。NET解决方案-将其转换为c#应该相对简单，而我的c#在扩展等新主题上已经生疏了)