void Nish(char* szBlog);

In my previous blog entry, I had recommended storing enums using their string representations when writing them to a database. There’s a caveat there though – the enum names should be guaranteed to remain stable, because if you change the name of an enum member, it breaks the database. For my specific scenario I ended [...]

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I was reviewing some code and found that there were a few enum types that did not have a None value (which is a recommended practice). I thought I’d go ahead and add the None values when I found that the enum values were being written to the database via calls to Convert.ToInt32. Of course [...]

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