In app.config, I supply a cycle string value: "Monday", "Tuesday", ..., "Daily". From that value I wanted to assign a <Flags()>
enum. Simply using DayOfWeek
does not give me the ability to flag a process as a daily routine. Is there an available .Net class that does provide the day of week as a flag?
In the meantime, I devised the following:
<Flags()> _
Public Enum enumExportCycle As Integer
Monday = DayOfWeek.Monday
Tuesday = DayOfWeek.Tuesday
Wednesday = DayOfWeek.Wednesday + 1
Thursday = DayOfWeek.Thursday + 4
Friday = DayOfWeek.Friday + 11
Saturday = DayOfWeek.Saturday + 26
Sunday = DayOfWeek.Sunday + 64
Daily = Monday Or Tuesday Or Wednesday Or Thursday Or Friday Or Saturday Or Sunday
End Enum
It feels somewhat hackish and I am looking for a better way.
this will work, right?
<Flags()> _
Public Enum enumExportCycle As Integer
Monday = 1
Tuesday = 2
Wednesday = 4
Thursday = 8
Friday = 16
Saturday = 32
Sunday = 64
Daily = Monday Or Tuesday Or Wednesday Or Thursday Or Friday Or Saturday Or Sunday
End Enum
or this
<Flags()> _
Public Enum enumExportCycle As Integer
Monday = 2 ^ DayOfWeek.Monday
Tuesday = 2 ^ DayOfWeek.Tuesday
Wednesday = 2 ^ DayOfWeek.Wednesday
Thursday = 2 ^ DayOfWeek.Thursday
Friday = 2 ^ DayOfWeek.Friday
Saturday = 2 ^ DayOfWeek.Saturday
Sunday = 2 ^ DayOfWeek.Sunday
Daily = Monday Or Tuesday Or Wednesday Or Thursday Or Friday Or Saturday Or Sunday
End Enum
since DayOfWeek start from 0 (Sunday) to 6 (Saturday)