How to return the enum value and description from a base enum and populate a dropdownlist in ASP.Net

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Posted on by Robert Herrmann

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I'm new to AX development. I am using AX 2012. I have a class which is used by a web service to expose it's methods to an ASP.Net web site project. The web service works fine.

On my web page, I have a dropdownlist control. I want to create a method in my AX class which will return a list that populates my dropdownlist control. I have not used enums and I'm not sure how to do this. So I want to return rows of enums / descriptions that will populate my ASP.Net dropdownlist control. How can I do this?

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Denis Macchinetti 16,444 on at

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Hi Robert

In the link below, you can find the x++ code for get values of base enums.

arsalanax.blogspot.it/.../get-values-of-base-enums-using-code-in.html

You can create a list of elements to return to your ASP.net application.

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Robert Herrmann 790 on at

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Hi Denis,

I verified your answer a week or 2 ago but I actually have a syntax error when I use the code in the link you provided. Here is my code:

private void getTareTypes()

{

EnumId enumId = enumNum(wfsTareType);

DictEnum dictEnum = new DictEnum(enumId);

int count = dictEnum.values();

int counter;

for(counter = 0; counter < count; counter ++)

{

dictEnum.name(counter);

}

This line is underlined in red and says there is a syntax error:

int count = dictEnum.values();

So what I am I doing wrong?

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Martin Dráb 237,959 Most Valuable Professional on at

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AX 2012 offers the Metadata service for this purpose, namely operations GetEnumMetadataByID and GetEnumMetadataByName. You'll get EnumMetadata object and you'll find enum elements in Entries.

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