Visual Basic® 2010 Unleashed

Using Enumerations

You use enumerations as any other .NET type. For example, consider the following method that receives the Sports enumeration as an argument and returns a response depending on what value has been passed:

The following code snippet then declares a variable of type Sports, assigns a value, and then invoke the method passing the variable:

Dim mySport As Sports = Sports.Climbing AnalyzeSports(mySport)

Notice how IntelliSense comes in when you need to specify a value whose type is an enumeration. Figure 11.1 shows the IntelliSense’s pop-up window related to our custom enumeration.

Figure 11.1 IntelliSense provides flexibility in ...