在ComboBox / DropDown列表控件的Lightswitch中使用EF的枚举

Question

I have created the following tables:

The Role in the AccountContact table is the following enum:

public enum UserRoles : int
{
    Admin = 0,
    AccountAdmin = 1,
    AccountUser = 2,
    SiteAdmin = 3,
    SiteUser = 4,
    User = 5,
    None = 6
}

In Lightswitch, I've added the database created from the EF design but the Role is int in the data-source table and not the enum. How do I create the drop-down for lightswitch of the enum and selection to be the resulting int?

Answer 1

Even though EF5 now supports enums, that doesn't automatically mean that LightSwitch also supports them.

I'm not using LS 2012 yet, so I can't confirm this, but it's likley to be your problem. I don't remember hearing that enum support had been introduced into LightSwitch.