Binding ComboBoxes to enums… in Silverlight!

Question

So, the web, and StackOverflow, have plenty of nice answers for how to bind a combobox to an enum property in WPF. But Silverlight is missing all of the features that make this

Answer 1

I find that a simple encapsulation of enum data is way easier to use.

public ReadOnly property MonsterGroupRole as list(of string)
  get
    return [Enum].GetNames(GetType(GroupRoleEnum)).Tolist
  End get
End Property

private _monsterEnum as GroupRoleEnum
Public Property MonsterGroupRoleValue as Integer
  get
    return _monsterEnum
  End get
  set(value as integer)
    _monsterEnum=value
  End set
End Property

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And this will completly remove the need of a converter... :)