From an int:
YourEnum foo = (YourEnum)yourInt;
From a string:
YourEnum foo = (YourEnum) Enum.Parse(typeof(YourEnum), yourString);
// The foo.ToString().Contains(",") check is necessary for enumerations marked with an [Flags] attribute
if (!Enum.IsDefined(typeof(YourEnum), foo) && !foo.ToString().Contains(","))
{
throw new InvalidOperationException($"{yourString} is not an underlying value of the YourEnum enumeration.")
}
Update:
From number you can also
YourEnum foo = (YourEnum)Enum.ToObject(typeof(YourEnum) , yourInt);
Contrary to the answers here, you DON'T need to worry about encoding if the bytes don't need to be interpreted!
Like you mentioned, your goal is, simply, to "get what bytes the string has been stored in".
(And, of course, to be able to re-construct the string from the bytes.)
For those goals, I honestly do not understand why people keep telling you that you need the encodings. You certainly do NOT need to worry about encodings for this.
Just do this instead:
static byte[] GetBytes(string str)
{
byte[] bytes = new byte[str.Length * sizeof(char)];
System.Buffer.BlockCopy(str.ToCharArray(), 0, bytes, 0, bytes.Length);
return bytes;
}
// Do NOT use on arbitrary bytes; only use on GetBytes's output on the SAME system
static string GetString(byte[] bytes)
{
char[] chars = new char[bytes.Length / sizeof(char)];
System.Buffer.BlockCopy(bytes, 0, chars, 0, bytes.Length);
return new string(chars);
}
As long as your program (or other programs) don't try to interpret the bytes somehow, which you obviously didn't mention you intend to do, then there is nothing wrong with this approach! Worrying about encodings just makes your life more complicated for no real reason.
Additional benefit to this approach: It doesn't matter if the string contains invalid characters, because you can still get the data and reconstruct the original string anyway!
It will be encoded and decoded just the same, because you are just looking at the bytes.
If you used a specific encoding, though, it would've given you trouble with encoding/decoding invalid characters.
Best Answer
Hi As i understand you want to save you tree view map after you refresh tree view (by adding new data or even remove some) you want to expand all expanded nodes the other are collapsed by default. Solution is:
1) save expanded tree view nodes before refresh
2) refresh tree view data (notice that if you are removing a node , remove it from saved list as well)
3) set tree view map which saved before
saving tree view map (only expanded nodes)-> This Code Look through a tree view node collection and saves expanded nodes Names in a string list
Now you have collected expanded nodes name in a list and you want to gain back your tree view appearance you need 2 functions a function which retrieves node by a name and a function which expand selected node and it's parents the following codes does :
This function retrieves a pointer to selected node Name if node is exist in Tree Node Collection
and This Function Expand node and it's parents
and the following show you the usage of the functions