C# vs Java Enum (for those new to C#)

In C# you can define extension methods on enums, and this makes up for some of the missing functionality.

You can define Planet as an enum and also have extension methods equivalent to surfaceGravity() and surfaceWeight().

I have used custom attributes as suggested by Mikhail, but the same could be achieved using a Dictionary.

using System;
using System.Reflection;

class PlanetAttr: Attribute
{
    internal PlanetAttr(double mass, double radius)
    {
        this.Mass = mass;
        this.Radius = radius;
    }
    public double Mass { get; private set; }
    public double Radius { get; private set; }
}

public static class Planets
{
    public static double GetSurfaceGravity(this Planet p)
    {
        PlanetAttr attr = GetAttr(p);
        return G * attr.Mass / (attr.Radius * attr.Radius);
    }

    public static double GetSurfaceWeight(this Planet p, double otherMass)
    {
        return otherMass * p.GetSurfaceGravity();
    }

    public const double G = 6.67300E-11;

    private static PlanetAttr GetAttr(Planet p)
    {
        return (PlanetAttr)Attribute.GetCustomAttribute(ForValue(p), typeof(PlanetAttr));
    }

    private static MemberInfo ForValue(Planet p)
    {
        return typeof(Planet).GetField(Enum.GetName(typeof(Planet), p));
    }

}

public enum Planet
{
    [PlanetAttr(3.303e+23, 2.4397e6)]  MERCURY,
    [PlanetAttr(4.869e+24, 6.0518e6)]  VENUS,
    [PlanetAttr(5.976e+24, 6.37814e6)] EARTH,
    [PlanetAttr(6.421e+23, 3.3972e6)]  MARS,
    [PlanetAttr(1.9e+27,   7.1492e7)]  JUPITER,
    [PlanetAttr(5.688e+26, 6.0268e7)]  SATURN,
    [PlanetAttr(8.686e+25, 2.5559e7)]  URANUS,
    [PlanetAttr(1.024e+26, 2.4746e7)]  NEPTUNE,
    [PlanetAttr(1.27e+22,  1.137e6)]   PLUTO
}

Enumerations in the CLR are simply named constants. The underlying type must be integral. In Java an enumeration is more like a named instance of a type. That type can be quite complex and - as your example shows - contain multiple fields of various types.

To port the example to C# I would just change the enum to an immutable class and expose static readonly instances of that class:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;

namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Planet planetEarth = Planet.MERCURY;

            double earthRadius = pEarth.Radius; // Just threw it in to show usage
            double earthWeight = double.Parse("123");
            double earthMass   = earthWeight / pEarth.SurfaceGravity();

            foreach (Planet p in Planet.Values)
                Console.WriteLine($"Your weight on {p} is {p.SurfaceWeight(mass)}");

            Console.ReadKey();
        }
    }

    public class Planet
    {
        public static readonly Planet MERCURY = new Planet("Mercury", 3.303e+23, 2.4397e6);
        public static readonly Planet VENUS   = new Planet("Venus", 4.869e+24, 6.0518e6);
        public static readonly Planet EARTH   = new Planet("Earth", 5.976e+24, 6.37814e6);
        public static readonly Planet MARS    = new Planet("Mars", 6.421e+23, 3.3972e6);
        public static readonly Planet JUPITER = new Planet("Jupiter", 1.9e+27, 7.1492e7);
        public static readonly Planet SATURN  = new Planet("Saturn", 5.688e+26, 6.0268e7);
        public static readonly Planet URANUS  = new Planet("Uranus", 8.686e+25, 2.5559e7);
        public static readonly Planet NEPTUNE = new Planet("Neptune", 1.024e+26, 2.4746e7);
        public static readonly Planet PLUTO   = new Planet("Pluto", 1.27e+22, 1.137e6);

        public static IEnumerable<Planet> Values
        {
            get
            {
                yield return MERCURY;
                yield return VENUS;
                yield return EARTH;
                yield return MARS;
                yield return JUPITER;
                yield return SATURN;
                yield return URANUS;
                yield return NEPTUNE;
                yield return PLUTO;
            }
        }

        public string Name   { get; private set; }
        public double Mass   { get; private set; }
        public double Radius { get; private set; }

        Planet(string name, double mass, double radius) => 
            (Name, Mass, Radius) = (name, mass, radius);

        // Wniversal gravitational constant  (m3 kg-1 s-2)
        public const double G = 6.67300E-11;
        public double SurfaceGravity()            => G * mass / (radius * radius);
        public double SurfaceWeight(double other) => other * SurfaceGravity();
        public override string ToString()         => name;
    }
}

Java enums are actually full classes which can have a private constructor and methods etc, whereas C# enums are just named integers. IMO Java's implementation is far superior.

This page should help you a lot while learning c# coming from a java camp. (The link points to the differences about enums (scroll up / down for other things)

Something like this I think:

public class Planets 
{
    public static readonly Planet MERCURY = new Planet(3.303e+23, 2.4397e6);
    public static readonly Planet VENUS = new Planet(4.869e+24, 6.0518e6);
    public static readonly Planet EARTH = new Planet(5.976e+24, 6.37814e6);
    public static readonly Planet MARS = new Planet(6.421e+23, 3.3972e6);
    public static readonly Planet JUPITER = new Planet(1.9e+27,   7.1492e7);
    public static readonly Planet SATURN = new Planet(5.688e+26, 6.0268e7);
    public static readonly Planet URANUS = new Planet(8.686e+25, 2.5559e7);
    public static readonly Planet NEPTUNE = new Planet(1.024e+26, 2.4746e7);
    public static readonly Planet PLUTO = new Planet(1.27e+22,  1.137e6);
}

public class Planet
{
    public double Mass {get;private set;}
    public double Radius {get;private set;}

    Planet(double mass, double radius)
    {
        Mass = mass;
        Radius = radius;
    }

    // universal gravitational constant  (m3 kg-1 s-2)
    private static readonly double G = 6.67300E-11;

    public double SurfaceGravity()
    {
        return G * Mass / (Radius * Radius);
    }

    public double SurfaceWeight(double otherMass)
    {
        return otherMass * SurfaceGravity();
    }
}

Or combine the constants into the Planet class as above

we have just made an enum extension for c# https://github.com/simonmau/enum_ext

It's just a implementation for the typesafeenum, but it works great so we made a package to share - have fun with it

public sealed class Weekday : TypeSafeNameEnum<Weekday, int>
{
    public static readonly Weekday Monday = new Weekday(1, "--Monday--");
    public static readonly Weekday Tuesday = new Weekday(2, "--Tuesday--");
    public static readonly Weekday Wednesday = new Weekday(3, "--Wednesday--");
    ....

    private Weekday(int id, string name) : base(id, name)
    {
    }
}

A Java enum is syntactic sugar to present enumerations in an OO manner. They're abstract classes extending the Enum class in Java, and each enum value is like a static final public instance implementation of the enum class. Look at the generated classes, and for an enum "Foo" with 10 values, you'll see "Foo$1" through "Foo$10" classes generated.

I don't know C# though, I can only speculate that an enum in that language is more like a traditional enum in C style languages. I see from a quick Google search that they can hold multiple values however, so they are probably implemented in a similar manner, but with far more restrictions than what the Java compiler allows.

Java enums allow easy typesafe conversions from the name using the compiler-generated valueOf method, i.e.

// Java Enum has generics smarts and allows this
Planet p = Planet.valueOf("MERCURY");

The equivalent for a raw enum in C# is more verbose:

// C# enum - bit of hoop jumping required
Planet p = (Planet)Enum.Parse(typeof(Planet), "MERCURY");

However, if you go down the route sugegsted by Kent, you can easily implement a ValueOf method in your enum class.

The enum in Java is much more complex than C# enum and hence more powerful. Since it is just another compile time syntactical sugar I'm wondering if it was really worth having included the language given its limited usage in real life applications. Sometimes it's harder keeping stuff out of the language than giving up to the pressure to include a minor feature.