Displaying a String rather than Int

Question

Currently my code will display results from my database into labels. All of the results I get back are ints. I'd like to change that and make it, for example, 1 would be displayed as "Online".

I know I could write a bunch of "if" statements but that doesn't seem proper. Is there a better solution to this?

Answer 1

enum Colors { Red, Green, Blue, Yellow };

Then use

Enum.GetName(typeof(Colors), 3)

Keeping in mind that enums are zero based, unless a value is specified. MSDN

Answer 2

I use Headspring Enumeration for this. No reflection, extensible, flexible.

Answer 3

Use switch case , it's much better than a lot of if statements in this case.

switch(num)
{
    case 1:
        string = "Online";
    case 2:
        string = "Offline";
    default:
        string = "Default"; // Called if none of the cases above are true
}

Answer 4

If a program uses set of inetgral numbers try to use C# enums.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/fr-fr/library/sbbt4032.aspx http://www.tutorialspoint.com/csharp/csharp_enums.htm