Azure Table Storage, WCF Service and Enum

Question

Here\'s my problem. A class which defines an order has a property called PaymentStatus, which is an enum defined like so:

    public en         


        

Answer 1

Here's a simple workaround:

public int MyEnumValue { get; set; } //for use by the Azure client libraries only
[IgnoreProperty] public MyEnum MyEnum
{
    get { return (MyEnum) MyEnumValue; }
    set { MyEnumValue = (int) value; }
}

It would have been nicer if a simple backing value could have been employed rather than an additional (public!) property - without the hassle of overriding ReadEntity/WriteEntity of course. I opened a user voice ticket that would facilitate that, so you might want to upvote it.