While the EnumSeparatePascalCase handles many situations it would be nice to be able to specify a substitution character like an underscore that could be used to insert spaces when displaying a enum. For example in our organization all departments are represented by a three character abbreviation and I have an enum that looks like:

 

Public Enum UserType

    HRA_Employee  

    HSA_Employee  

    Other_County_Employee  

    Community_Partner  

    Contractor  

    Vendor  

End Enum

 

Since I can’t separate all of them on PascalCase I end up inserting underscores. This works but it would make the application cleaner if I could easily eliminate the underscores when displaying the information.

Any plans on adding this capability to the situation where an enum is bound to a text box control? Right now the "unformatted" enum is displayed.

-Larry

Not right now.  You could, however, accomplish this by creating your own EnumTextBox subclass and within the constructor, add a handler to the this.DataBindings.CollectionChanged event.  Within this event, add a handler to the binding object's Format event.  Within the format handler, call the MicroFour.StrataFrame.Tools.Common.GetEnumDisplayValue() method and change the event args.  This will allow you to format the data going to the control.

If you want to allow the text box to be editable, then you'll also need to handle the Parse event of the binding object to reverse the process of the format event handler.