Collection of Enum with additional properties

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From: Donal McWeeney (donal_mcweeney_at_NO-SP-AM.aimware.com)
Date: 04/29/04 

Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 15:16:05 +0100

Just thinking out loud here and looking for feedback in case I missed
something...

I was to track some additional properties around an enum I have - for
example a display name and a description. So I was thinking a building a
class EnumDescriptor to store these properties - and make it generic so that
it could be used for all enums.

I also need to be able to store and manage a collection of these
EnumDescriptor objects... for this I was thinking of building a custom
collection class (EnumDescriptorCollection) by inheriting from the the
NameObjectCollectionBase class.

Anybody know if I missed something in the .net framework that may do the
above for me?
Or if I missed anything in the logic...

Thanks

    Donal

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