Comments on: Enumeration classes

By: Polymorphism Part 2: Refactoring to Polymorphic Behavior | John Teague's Blog

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 04:07:25 +0000

[...] you need a class to truly model the abstraction correctly. You can use Jimmy’s awesome Enumeration class to use classes to also us them as [...]

By: Brad Laney

Brad Laney — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 23:01:00 +0000

You need to fix the post to reflect changes for the new keyword. The new keyword requires PUBLIC default ctor. The static methods cannot execute.

By: Enumeration Classes as Flags « Outlawtrail – .NET Development

Enumeration Classes as Flags « Outlawtrail – .NET Development — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 05:05:43 +0000

[...] my last post I talked about serializing Enumeration Classes for use with WCF. In this post I’m gonna show you how to add a feature that real enums have [...]

By: Enumeration Classes and WCF « Outlawtrail – .NET Development

Enumeration Classes and WCF « Outlawtrail – .NET Development — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 07:03:34 +0000

[...] an old article by Jimmy Bogard, author of the famous AutoMapper library. In his post he talks about Enumeration Classes. What they are, how they work and what their advantages over simple enums [...]

By: Ryan Vice

Ryan Vice — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 14:23:00 +0000

Best thing I’ve seen on the web in ages. Great technique, thanks for sharing!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 07:03:00 +0000

Man this post is like 4 years old. What do I do? Build normal .NET enums. Things that cross service boundaries are DTOs, so just data = enums only. Unless it’s behavioral objects getting consumed then yes, my tailor-made enum classes make it over.

I ignored it cause I never needed to cross service boundaries but NOW I ARE ONE.

By: matt kocaj

matt kocaj — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 01:32:00 +0000

Forgive my ignorance but I don’t understand why you’re ignoring the question ”
what do you do about enumerations crossing service boundaries?”

By: Anonymous Coward

Anonymous Coward — Tue, 22 May 2012 05:09:00 +0000

Very cool. I was sitting around slowly coming around to the fact that enum types are very smelly, so seeing this gives me ideas of how to refactor them properly

By: Persisting enumeration classes with NHibernate | Jimmy Bogard's Blog

Persisting enumeration classes with NHibernate | Jimmy Bogard's Blog — Tue, 01 May 2012 13:31:45 +0000

[...] part of my “Crafting Wicked Domain Models” talk, I walk through the concept of enumeration classes, yanked from Java and on Jon Skeet’s list of biggest C# mistakes (or missing features). In my [...]

By: Becoming a Headspringer: Take Advantage of Working with Smart People | Headspring

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:23:42 +0000

[...] you would like to see more details on the Enumeration class, you can read Jimmy Bogard’s post on the subject. If you would like more details about this particular test, feel free to leave a [...]