Return Enum From C# Property getters

Question

How do you return an Enum from a setter/getter function?

Currently I have this:

    public enum LowerCase
    {
        a,
        b,
    }
    public en         


        

Answer 1

Probably you should use a base class Case and two derived classes, so that your ChooseCase property returns an object of the corresponding class:

abstract class Case
{
    abstract char GetItem(int index);
}

class LowerCase : Case
{
    override char GetItem(int index)
    {
        // Not sure for the following
        Encoding ascii = Encoding.ASCII;
        return ascii.GetString(ascii.GetBytes("a")[0] + index)[0];
    }
}

class UpperCase : Case
{
    // The same for the upper case
}

public Case ChooseCase
{
    get
    {
        if (condition)
        {
            return new LowerCase();
        }
        else
        {
            return new UpperCase();
        }
    }
}

This is a thing you cannot do with enums, because they all derive exactly from Enum.