C#

/// <summary>
/// Membership status
/// Notes:
///    This is reflected directly in the database
/// </summary>
public enum MemberStatus
    {
    /// <summary>
    /// Match all members types
    /// </summary>
    Any = 0xffff,
    /// <summary>
    /// Contact - not a member or associate. No voting rights.
    /// May be a supllier, grant donor, etc.
    /// </summary>
    Contact = 0,
    /// <summary>
    /// Associate - does not have a plot, but interested and helpful
    /// </summary>
    Associate = 1,
    /// <summary>
    /// Waiting for a plot - there should be a "Plot application" message dated.
    /// </summary>
    Waiting = 2,
    /// <summary>
    /// Member - has a plot, and a single voting right
    /// </summary>
    Member = 4,
    }

Mycroft Holmes wrote:

an enum is based on the position of the item in the enum rather than the value

PIEBALDconsult wrote:

An enumeration

enum chemicalEliments { O = 16, H = 1 etc}

PIEBALDconsult wrote:

liberally decorated with Attributes for additional information

PIEBALDconsult wrote:

and read it into one or more Dictionaries

enum Elements
{
    [Description("Hydrogen")]
    H = 1
...
}

PIEBALDconsult wrote:

Or whatever, it has been a long time since high school.

System.Drawing.Graphics graphics = this.CreateGraphics();
System.Drawing.Rectangle rectangle = new System.Drawing.Rectangle(
    100, 100, 200, 200);
graphics.DrawEllipse(System.Drawing.Pens.Black, rectangle);