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// Elements of an enumeration need not be sequential!

enum EmpType

{

Manager = 10,

Grunt = 1,

Contractor = 100,

VicePresident = 9

}

Controlling the Underlying Storage for an Enum

By default, the storage type used to hold the values of an enumeration is a System.Int32 (the C#

int); however, you are free to change this to your liking. C# enumerations can be defined in a simi-

lar manner for any of the core system types (byte, short, int, or long). For example, if you want to

set the underlying storage value of EmpType to be a byte rather than an int, you can write the

following:

C H A P T E R   4  

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C O R E   C #   P R O G R A M M I N G   C O N S T R U C T S, PA RT   I I

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