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

It think this can solve your problem. If it is not implemented you can return null or an exception. It depends what you need.

public DescriptionAttribute GetDescription(ContractorType contractorType)
{
     MemberInfo memberInfo = typeof(ContractorType).GetMember(contractorType.ToString())
                                          .FirstOrDefault();

     if (memberInfo != null)
    {
         DescriptionAttribute attribute = (DescriptionAttribute) 
                 memberInfo.GetCustomAttributes(typeof(DescriptionAttribute), false)
                           .FirstOrDefault();
         return attribute;
    }

    //return null;
    //or

    throw new NotImplementedException("There is no description for this enum");
}

So you will use it like this :

DescriptionAttribute attribute = GetDescription(ContractorType.RECIPIENT);

Sorry that I didn't read your question. Here is some code that you can use to take all of the description strings:

 public IEnumerable GetAllDescriptionInText()
 {
     List descList = new List();
     foreach (DescriptionAttribute desc in Enum.GetValues(typeof(DescriptionAttribute)))
     {
         descList.Add(GetDescription(desc).Value);
     }
     return descList;
 }