How to bind a property to a static enum value?

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I have an enum with various values:

public enum UserStatus
{
    Active = 1,
    Inactive = 2,
    Invalid = 3,
    Blocked = 4,
    Pending = 5
}

And on my UI I'm assigning a color for each value of the enum, and since it's used in various windows, I've created a Converter for it.

Now I want to display a legend of some of the enum values, is there anyway I can bind a static enum value to a property in a WPF control?

<!-- I want ? to be a fixed enum value -->
<TextBlock Text="{Binding ?, Converter={StaticResource=UserStatusToString}}" Foreground={Binding ?, Converter={StaticResource=UserStatusToBrush}} />

I don't have a data object at this point and I only want to somehow pick the color value from the converter instead of hard-typing it in the legend. Is there anyway I can do this?

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:26

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I think this Stack Overflow post might be your answer. You'll have to have your enum value listed in your xaml's resources section and use its key as StaticResource key.

edited May 23 '17 at 10:26

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answered Jun 26 '15 at 22:05

Andrej Mohar

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As seen in the link use Source. `` – Lakedaimon Aug 28 '23 at 17:23

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 26 '15 at 22:10

Use ObjectDataProvider to get all enum values and then show them in ListBox with ItemTemplate

<Window xmlns:local="clr-namespace:FooApp" ... >
    <Window.Resources>
        <ObjectDataProvider x:Key="FooEnumValues" 
            MethodName="GetValues"
            ObjectType="{x:Type System:Enum}">
            <ObjectDataProvider.MethodParameters>
                <x:Type TypeName="local:Foo" />
            </ObjectDataProvider.MethodParameters>
        </ObjectDataProvider>
    </Window.Resources>

    <Grid>
        <ListBox ItemsSource="{Binding Source={StaticResource FooEnumValues}}">
            <ListBox.ItemTemplate>
                <DataTemplate>
                    <TextBlock 
    Text="{Binding Converter={StaticResource=UserStatusToString}}" 
    Foreground="{Binding Converter={StaticResource=UserStatusToBrush}}"/>
                </DataTemplate>
            </ListBox.ItemTemplate>
        </ListBox>
    </Grid>
</Window>

How to bind a property to a static enum value?

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