How to Bind the DropDownList With Enum

We can Bind DropDownList with no of ways, Now I am going to show how to bind dropdown using ‘enum’. 

Check This How To Bind DropDownList Using List Collection and DataSet in Asp.Net



 Let’s take Countries ‘enum’ as follows

enum enCountries:int{India=0,USA,UK,UAE};

Let see How to Bind the DropDownList With Enum

ddlEnumBind.Items.Add("--Select Country--");

   //get enum items to get the respective enum value

   string[] enumNames=Enum.GetNames(typeof(enCountries));

   foreach (string item in enumNames)

   {

       //get the enum item value

       int value = (int)Enum.Parse(typeof(enCountries), item);

       ListItem listItem = new ListItem(item, value.ToString());

       ddlEnumBind.Items.Add(listItem);

   }