This took me a good while to figure out. This is specifically for looping through multiple enumerations declared inside of a class. This code would have to be modified slightly in order to loop through all enumerations inside of a namespace. I searched for this code everywhere on the net and I couldn’t find it so I wrote it myself.

Enjoy.

public void GetAllEnums()
{
 object enumValue;
 string[] arrEnumNames;

 Type enumType;
 FieldInfo field;
 MemberInfo member;
 
 //Get all of the members of this class, this includes everything
 MemberInfo[] members = typeof(AllEnumsToTable).GetMembers();

 //Loop through the members.
 //Hard coded to 7 because I can't figure out how to filter just for enums
 //System.RuntimeType isn't allowed to be used for what ever reason
 for (int i = 0; i < members.Length; i++ )
 {
  member = members[i];

  if (member.MemberType == MemberTypes.NestedType)
  {
   enumType = Type.GetType(member.DeclaringType.FullName + "+" + member.Name);

   if (enumType.IsEnum)
   {
    Console.WriteLine(member.Name);

    arrEnumNames = enumType.GetEnumNames();

    foreach (string name in arrEnumNames)
    {
     field = enumType.GetField(name);

     enumValue = field.GetRawConstantValue();

     Console.WriteLine("Key {0} Value {1}", name, Convert.ToString(enumValue));
    }
   }

   Console.WriteLine();
  }
 }
}

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