C# - Example of Enum Class

Here, we are going to demonstrate the example of Enum class in C#? By Nidhi Last updated : March 29, 2023

Example of Enum Class

Here, we will create an enumeration and then access those elements and print their values.

C# program to demonstrate the example of Enum

The source code to demonstrate the enumeration is given below. The given program is compiled and executed successfully on Microsoft Visual Studio.

// C# - Example of Enum Class
// Create and Print Enum Values

using System;

enum COLOR {
  RED,
  GREEN,
  YELLOW,
  BLACK,
  WHITE,
  BLUE
}

class EnumDemo {
  static void PrintColor(COLOR color) {
    switch (color) {
    case COLOR.RED:
      Console.WriteLine("Color is Red,    value: " + COLOR.RED);
      break;
    case COLOR.GREEN:
      Console.WriteLine("Color is Green,  value: " + COLOR.GREEN);
      break;
    case COLOR.YELLOW:
      Console.WriteLine("Color is Yellow, value: " + COLOR.YELLOW);
      break;
    case COLOR.BLACK:
      Console.WriteLine("Color is Black,  value: " + COLOR.BLACK);
      break;
    case COLOR.WHITE:
      Console.WriteLine("Color is White,  value: " + COLOR.WHITE);
      break;
    case COLOR.BLUE:
      Console.WriteLine("Color is Blue,   value: " + COLOR.BLUE);
      break;
    }
  }
 
  static void Main(string[] args) {
    PrintColor(COLOR.RED);
    PrintColor(COLOR.GREEN);
    PrintColor(COLOR.BLUE);
  }
}

Output

Color is Red,      value: RED
Color is Green,  value: GREEN
Color is Blue,     value: BLUE
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Explanation

In the above program, we created an enum COLOR that contain constants with color names. Here, we also created a class EnumDemo that contains two static methods PrintColor() and Main().

In the PrintColor() method, we created a switch block, here, we printed the color value based on enum constant passed into the method.

In the Main() method, we called the PrintColor() method with different values of a COLOR enum.