How to create enum for font family in C#

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Dear All,

I have an windows application, in which we are automating MS-OFFICE 2013/16.

Now, we are trying to compare the Font Family, for that i want to create enum font family.

Is there font family enum in WordInterop?

What I have tried:

Because the font names have space, so i got stuck how to create this enum

public enum FontFamilies
{
  Arial,
  Arial Narrow//Error
}

can anyone plz help me...

Thanks

Posted 10-Apr-17 22:34pm

abdul subhan mohammed

Updated 11-Apr-17 0:02am

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CHill60 · Accepted Answer · 2017-04-11T00:02:00

You have several options.

Firstly you can enumerate all of the fonts installed on your system - see How to: Enumerate Installed Fonts[^]

If you want to build your own enum, you can have descriptions with spaces like this (ref:c# - Can my enums have friendly names?[^])

C#

//Requires using System.ComponentModel;
public enum FontFamilies
{
    [Description("Ariel")]
    Ariel,
    [Description("Arial Narrow")]
    ArialNarrow,
    [Description("Times New Roman")]
    TimesNewRoman
};

To get these descriptions you can do this (same ref as above):

C#

//Requires using System.Reflection;
public static string GetDescription(Enum value)
{
    Type type = value.GetType();
    string name = Enum.GetName(type, value);
    if (name != null)
    {
        FieldInfo field = type.GetField(name);
        if (field != null)
        {
            DescriptionAttribute attr =
                        Attribute.GetCustomAttribute(field,
                        typeof(DescriptionAttribute)) as DescriptionAttribute;
            if (attr != null)
            {
                return attr.Description;
            }
        }
    }
    return null;
}

An alternative method is to extend enum see - c# - Can my enums have friendly names? - Stack Overflow[^]

C#

public enum FontFamilies2
{
     Ariel,
     ArialNarrow,
     TimesNewRoman
};

C#

public static class ExtensionMethods
{
    public static string EnumValue(this FontFamilies2 e)
    {
        switch (e)
        {
            case FontFamilies2.Ariel:
                return "Ariel";
            case FontFamilies2.ArialNarrow:
                return "Ariel Narrow";
            case FontFamilies2.TimesNewRoman:
                return "Times New Roman";
        }
        return "Where did you find that value";
   }
}

And this is how you would access those descriptions respectively:

C#

System.Diagnostics.Debug.Print(GetDescription(FontFamilies.TimesNewRoman));
System.Diagnostics.Debug.Print(FontFamilies2.TimesNewRoman.EnumValue());

[EDIT OP now states they want this description as a list]
Assuming you have gone for the [Description...] attribute then you can do this:

C#

//Requires using System.Collections.Generic;
var fonts = new List<string>();
foreach (var x in Enum.GetValues(enumType: typeof (FontFamilies)))
    fonts.Add(GetDescription(x as Enum));

or the Linq version

C#

var fonts = (from object x in Enum.GetValues(enumType: typeof (FontFamilies)) select GetDescription(x as Enum)).ToList();