Using Enumerations

You use enumerations as any other .NET type. For example, consider the following method that receives the Sports enumeration as an argument and returns a response depending on which value has been passed:

Private Sub AnalyzeSports(ByVal sportsList As Sports)    Select Case sportsList        Case Is = Sports.Biking            Console.WriteLine("So, do you really like biking my friend?")        Case Is = Sports.Climbing            Console.WriteLine("I do not like climbing like you!")        Case Else            Console.WriteLine("Every sport is good!")    End SelectEnd Sub

The following code snippet then declares a variable of type Sports, assigns a value, and then invokes the method by passing the ...

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