A little confused about Enumerations

[The Fire Snake]

Another thing. What are you expecting the output of the TestEnum message box to be? If you expect "param1" to show "param1 = 1" then you should keep using what you have now. If you expect it to be "param1 = Hi" however you should use the ToString function:

Private Sub TestEnum(ByVal param1 as Greeting)
   Msgbox("param1 = " & param1.ToString())
End Sub

I was expecting the output of the message box to be "param1 = 1". Thanks for the info on the ToString method in regards to enums. That can certainly come in handy.

[NickThissen]

I was expecting the output of the message box to be "param1 = 1". Thanks for the info on the ToString method in regards to enums. That can certainly come in handy.

Well in that case what you were doing was technically correct (with option strict off), but still I wouldn't recommend it. With option strict on by the way you should have made the call differently, like so:

TestEnum(CInt(Greetings.Hi))

But if you do that, you loose all the advantages of having an enum in the first place! You could just as well use in integer in that case.