How to get all descriptions of enum values with reflection?

Question

So I need to get a List from my enum

Here is what I have done so far:

enum definition

Answer 1

You need to find the DescriptionAttribute on each field, if it exists and then retrieve the Description attribute e.g.

return enumType.GetFields()
                .Select(f => (DescriptionAttribute)f.GetCustomAttribute(typeof(DescriptionAttribute)))
                .Where(a => a != null)
                .Select(a => a.Description)

If you could have multiple descriptions on a field, you could do something like:

FieldInfo[] fields = enumType.GetFields();
foreach(FieldInfo field in fields)
{
    var descriptionAttributes = field.GetCustomAttributes(false).OfType();
    foreach(var descAttr in descriptionAttributes)
    {
        yield return descAttr.Description;
    }
}

which is more similar to your existing approach.