Imagine you have the following types defined.
If you want to display MovieGenre, the DisplayFor helpers generally give you what you expect (i.e. @Html.DisplayFor(m=> m.Genre) displays "Adventure"), but EditorFor will only give you a text input because the framework treats an enum the same as a string.
public class Movie
{
public int Id { get; set; }
public string Title { get; set; }
public MovieGenre Genre { get; set; }
}public enum MovieGenre
{
Action,
Drama,
Adventure,
Fantasy,
Boring
}
If you want to display MovieGenre, the DisplayFor helpers generally give you what you expect (i.e. @Html.DisplayFor(m=> m.Genre) displays "Adventure"), but EditorFor will only give you a text input because the framework treats an enum the same as a string.
