Ritesh Modi – Principal Engineer

Enum is a value type available in .NET framework. Use GetNames static method of this class to list down all values belonging to and ENUM as shown below

[Enum]::GetNames([System.Management.Automation.ActionPreference])

In the above command System.Management.Automation.ActionPreference is the Enum whose values we are interested in..

The above code return a string array and it looks like below

The above code can be used with an .NET Enumeration type.

Another example are below..

[Enum]::GetNames([System.Windows.Forms.MessageBoxButtons])