Gendarme.Rules.Design.EnumsShouldUseInt32Rule(git)

EnumsShouldUseInt32Rule

Assembly: Gendarme.Rules.Design
Version: git

Description

Enumaration types should avoid specifying a non-default storage type for their values unless it is required for interoperability (e.g. with native code). If you do use a non-default type for the enum, and the enum is externally visible, then prefer the CLS-compliant integral types: System.Byte, System.Int16, System.Int32, and System.Int64.

Examples

Bad examples:

public enum SmallEnum : byte {
    Zero,
    One
}
[Flags]
public enum SmallFlag : ushort {
    One = 1,
    // ...
    Sixteen = 1 << 15
}

Good example:

public enum SmallEnum {
    Zero,
    One
}
[Flags]
public enum SmallFlag {
    One = 1,
    // ...
    Sixteen = 1 << 15
}

Source code

You can browse the latest source code of this rule on github.com