Cast enum definition name to string

If i have enum like that:

public enum MyEnum
    {
        Element1 = 1,
        Element2,
        Element3,
        Element4 
    }

How could i cast MyEnum to String() in the code 开发者_运维技巧

I know that i may cast any Enum value to sting like that MyEnum.Element1.ToString(), but how I may cast Enum definition/name to string?

I want to do something like that :

MyEnum.ToString()

Depending on your use case I think you may very well be better off using a display name attribute like the example here. The enum string representation often isn't quite what you'd want to display and you'd need to update code in various places if you wanted that string to change.

As @shsmith said, use:

typeof(MyEnum).Name  

But unlike he said, don't use:

MyEnum.GetType().Name  

Since MyEnum isn't static, and hence can't invoke that method.
You can use GetType() on a specific element though, like so:

MyEnum.Element1.GetType().Name //=MyEnum