Pass in an enum as a method parameter

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I have declared an enum   public enum SupportedPermissions       basic      repository      both     I also have a POCO like this   public class File       public string Id   get  set        public string Name   get  set        public string Description   get  set        public SupportedPermissions SupportedPermissions   get  set              Now I would like to create a method that I can use to create a new File object with   public string CreateFile string id  string name  string description  Enum supportedPermissions        file   new File                 Name   name          Id   id          Description   description          SupportedPermissions   supportedPermissions basic             return file Id      How would I create the parameter for the enum and how would I assign that like in my pseudo code SupportedPermissions   supportedPermissions basic so that my File instance has a SupportedPermissions set to it

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Change the signature of the CreateFile method to expect a SupportedPermissions value instead of plain Enum   public string CreateFile string id  string name  string description  SupportedPermissions supportedPermissions        file   new File                 Name   name          Id   id          Description   description          SupportedPermissions   supportedPermissions             return file Id      Then when you call your method you pass the SupportedPermissions value to your method    var basicFile   CreateFile myId  myName  myDescription  SupportedPermissions basic

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If you want to pass in the value to use  you have to use the enum type you declared and directly use the supplied value   public string CreateFile string id  string name  string description                   -- gt      SupportedPermissions supportedPermissions        file   new File                 Name   name          Id   id          Description   description          SupportedPermissions   supportedPermissions     lt ---             return file Id      If you instead want to use a fixed value  you don t need any parameter at all  Instead  directly use the enum value  The syntax is similar to a static member of a class   public string CreateFile string id  string name  string description      lt ---       file   new File                 Name   name          Id   id          Description   description          SupportedPermissions   SupportedPermissions basic     lt ---             return file Id

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First change the method parameter Enum supportedPermissions to SupportedPermissions supportedPermissions   Then create your file like this  file   new File         Name   name      Id   id      Description   description      SupportedPermissions   supportedPermissions      And the call to your method should be  CreateFile id  name  description  SupportedPermissions basic

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public string CreateFile string id  string name  string description  SupportedPermissions supportedPermissions        file   new File                Name   name          Id   id          Description   description          SupportedPermissions   supportedPermissions             return file Id

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