enum is a tremendously useful structure in C#, but when defining a new enum there is one thing you should always ask yourself:

What should the default value be for my enum?

Runtime type conversion is something we all have to do from time to time, and in C#, type conversion is usually done using either the as keyword or casting.

Here’s a quick glance of how the two approaches differ:

In C#, there are two ways for you to declare a constant variable, you can either declare the variable as readonly, or const:

readonly

If you’re reading this then you should already know what an enum is in C# and that the underlying type of an enum element is int and you can convert between int and enum using casting:

AMFVO is short for Action Message Format (AMF) Value Object (VO).

AMF is a binary format used to serialize ActionScript objects, primarily used to exchange data between a Flash application and a remote service; a VO is also known as a Data Transfer Object…