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。

最简单的方法是将这个扩展类包含到你的项目中，它将与项目中的任何枚举一起工作:

public static class EnumExtensions
{
    public static string ToFriendlyString(this Enum code)
    {
        return Enum.GetName(code.GetType(), code);
    }
}

用法:

enum ExampleEnum
{
    Demo = 0,
    Test = 1, 
    Live = 2
}

...

ExampleEnum ee = ExampleEnum.Live;
Console.WriteLine(ee.ToFriendlyString());

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;
        }
    }
}

使用枚举。GetName

从上面的链接…

using System;

public class GetNameTest {
    enum Colors { Red, Green, Blue, Yellow };
    enum Styles { Plaid, Striped, Tartan, Corduroy };

    public static void Main() {

        Console.WriteLine("The 4th value of the Colors Enum is {0}", Enum.GetName(typeof(Colors), 3));
        Console.WriteLine("The 4th value of the Styles Enum is {0}", Enum.GetName(typeof(Styles), 3));
    }
}
// The example displays the following output:
//       The 4th value of the Colors Enum is Yellow
//       The 4th value of the Styles Enum is Corduroy

如果您只是想在单词之间添加空格，那么简单到

string res = Regex.Replace(PublishStatusses.NotCompleted, "[A-Z]", " $0").Trim();

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();
    }