Nested Enum and Property Naming Conflicts

Question

There are some related questions here and here, but they didn\'t really give me satisfactory answers. The problem is that enums nested in a class in C# cannot have the same name

Answer 1

Wrapping the enum in a struct was well suited for my particular case b/c there was other data at play (the int Value, which is also a value type).

public class Record
{
    public enum DurationUnit { Minutes, Hours }

    public struct DurationStruct
    {
        public readonly int Value;
        public readonly DurationUnit Unit;

        public DurationStruct(int value, DurationUnit unit)
        {
            Value = value;
            Unit = unit;
        }
    }
    public DurationStruct Duration; //{get; set;} -can't return a ref to a val type (in C#)

    public void Init()
    {   
        // initialize struct (not really "new" like a ref type)
        // -helpful syntax if DurationStruct ever graduated/ascended to class
        Duration = new DurationStruct(1, DurationUnit.Hours);
    }
}    

So for the Card class above, it would be something like the following

public class Card
{
    public enum Suit { Clubs, Diamonds, Spades, Hearts }
    public enum Rank { Two, Three, ...  King, Ace }

    public struct CardStruct
    {
        public Card.Suit Suit { get; private set; }
        public Card.Rank Rank { get; private set; }
    }

    //public CardStruct Card {get; set;} -can't be same as enclosing class either
    public CardStruct Identity {get; set;}

    public int Value
    {
        get    
        {
            //switch((Suit)Card.Suit)
            switch((Suit)Identity.Suit)
            {
                //case Suit.Hearts:   return Card.Rank + 0*14;
                case Suit.Hearts:   return Identity.Rank + 0*14;
                case Suit.Clubs:    return Identity.Rank + 1*14;
                case Suit.Diamonds: return Identity.Rank + 2*14;
                case Suit.Spades:   return Identity.Rank + 3*14;                
            }
        }
    }
}