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Sometimes we need to bind an enum to a dropdown or something of the sort. Sometimes we want to join in a linq query. The best way to do this is to convert the Enum to a typed Dictionary

public static class Utilities
	{
		public static Dictionary ConvertToDictionary(Type enumType)
		{
			// get the names and values from the enumeration
			List names = Enum.GetNames(enumType).ToList();
			Array values = Enum.GetValues(enumType);

			Dictionary dict = new Dictionary();

			for (int i = 0; i < names.Count; i++)
				dict.Add((int)values.GetValue(i), names[i]);

			return dict;
		}
	}