如何从Code First Entity Framework序列化枚举作为DataContract的一部分

Question

I'm writing a WCF service that uses Code First Entity Framework to access a SQL Server database. I have a POCO that references an enum JobStatus :

public enum JobStatus
{
    New,
    Submitted,
    Approved,
    Returned,
    OnHold,
    Cancelled,
}

Now I'm defining a DTO based on my POCO as part of a WCF [DataContract] . How should I reference the enum in my DTO? I'm going to need that enum in my MVC application as well to interpret the data being retrieved. Is this a situation where I need to create an assembly that only contains the enums and ship that around or is there a better way to deal with this?

Answer 1

why do you think that it would be such a problem trying to treat enum just like any other data member http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa347875.aspx

DataContract(Name = "JobStatus")]
public enum JobStatus
{
    [EnumMember]
    New, 
    [EnumMember]
    Submitted,
    [EnumMember]
    Approved,
    [EnumMember]
    Returned,
    [EnumMember]
    OnHold,
    [EnumMember]
    Cancelled,
}