Switch on Enum (with Flags attribute) without declaring every possible combination?

Solution 1:

How about this. Of course the arguments and return types of DoSomething, etc., can be anything you like.

class Program
{
    [Flags]
    public enum CheckType
    {
        Form = 1,
        QueryString = 2,
        TempData = 4,
    }

    private static bool DoSomething(IEnumerable cln)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("DoSomething");
        return true;
    }

    private static bool DoSomethingElse(IEnumerable cln)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("DoSomethingElse");
        return true;
    }

    private static bool DoWhatever(IEnumerable cln)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("DoWhatever");
        return true;
    }

    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        var theCheckType = CheckType.QueryString | CheckType.TempData;
        var checkTypeValues = Enum.GetValues(typeof(CheckType));
        foreach (CheckType value in checkTypeValues)
        {
            if ((theCheckType & value) == value)
            {
                switch (value)
                {
                    case CheckType.Form:
                        DoSomething(null);
                        break;
                    case CheckType.QueryString:
                        DoSomethingElse(null);
                        break;
                    case CheckType.TempData:
                        DoWhatever(null);
                        break;
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

Solution 2:

Just use HasFlag

if(theCheckType.HasFlag(CheckType.Form)) DoSomething(...);
if(theCheckType.HasFlag(CheckType.QueryString)) DoSomethingElse(...);
if(theCheckType.HasFlag(CheckType.TempData)) DoWhatever(...);