Enum

Full source code available here. A while ago I was working on a program that had to convert enums values to strings as it saved data. When I removed the enum value from the data that was saved it went noticeably faster.

Full source code here. A few years ago I wrote a post about saving enums to the database with Entity Framework. It was able to save the enum as a string to the database and when reading from the database it was able to take that string and populate the enum correctly.

In September 2018 I wrote a new post explaining how to store enums as ints or strings with Entity Framework Core. It is a nicer solution than the one presented here.