I have the following enum definition (in C#):
public enum ELogLevel
{
General = -1, // Should only be used in drop-down box in Merlinia Administrator log settings
All = 0, // Should not be used as a level, only as a threshold, effectively same as Trace
Trace = 1,
Debug = 2,
Info = 3,
Warn = 4,
Error = 5,
Fatal = 6,
Off = 7 // Should not be used as a level, only as a threshold
}
Now, when I do an Enum.GetNames() on this type I get a string array with 9 elements as expected, but the order is All, Trace, ... , Off, General, which is not what I was expecting.
Here's the MSDN documentation for Enum.GetNames():
"Remarks: The elements of the return value array are sorted by the values of the enumerated constants."
What's going on here? I can change my program to take this "functionality" into account, but I'd kind of like to know why .NET is doing what it's doing.