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I have an enumeration for my Things like so: public enum Things { OneThing, AnotherThing } I would like to write an extension method for this enumeration (similar to Prise's answer here ) but while that method works on an instance of the enumeration , ala Things thing; var list = thing.ToSelectList(); I would like it to work on the actual enumeration instead: var list = Things.ToSelectList(); I could just do var list = default(Things).ToSelectList(); But I don't like the look of that :) I have gotten closer with the following extension method: public static SelectList ToSelectList(this Type type) { if (type.IsEnum) { var values = from Enum e in Enum.GetValues(type) select new { ID = e, Name = e.ToString() }; return new SelectList(values, "Id", "Name"); } else { return null; } } Used like so: var list = typeof(Things).ToSelectList(); Can we do any better than that?
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