WP7: Enum.GetNames not present?

It has really been a source of great pain, that “someone” forgot to put in the Enum.GetNames() method in the SL-subset of .NET. Only the Enum.GetName() is present!

Anyway – a utility class I found in a blog comment somewhere came in quite handy:

public class Enum<T>
{
    public static IEnumerable<string> GetNames()
    { 
        var type = typeof(T); 
        
        if (!type.IsEnum)             
            throw new ArgumentException("Type '" + type.Name + "' is not an enum"); 
        
        return (from field in type.GetFields(System.Reflection.BindingFlags.Public | System.Reflection.BindingFlags.Static) 
                where field.IsLiteral 
                select field.Name).ToList(); 
    }
}

You use it like this:

var names = Enum<StockExchange>.GetNames();
ExchangeNames.AddRange(names);

(here the StockExchange is an enum.)

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