Overloading enum operator C# and Silverlight

Question

Just an academical question: Is it possible to avoid int casting when comparing Enum to int?

int i = 0;
if(i == (int)MyEnum.Whatever)
{
} 

I would like to overload == operator in such a manner:

public static MyEnum operator ==(int lhs, MyEnum rhs)
{}

Thanks for reading ;-)

Answer 1

You can't. See this similar question . As suggested in that question, you could define an extension method to do the comparison, in order to get rid of the repeated casts.

Answer 2

No, not possible. the question is - why do you compare to in at all?