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Getting ENUM values by Reflection

Recently I had this problem, where I had  to get the Items and Values of an Enum within a class. The class name and enum name (as strings) are known and the instance itself has to be created at runtime. i.e; via Reflection Namespace N1abcd .... Public Class TestClass     Public Enum TestEnum         val1 = 20         val2 = 30     End Enum End Class The syntax in VB.net is as below '   System.Type.GetType("Namespace Name" + "." + "Class Name" + "+" + "Enum Name") Dim fieldInfos() As System.Reflection.FieldInfo = System.Type.GetType(" N1abcd .TestClass+TestEnum").GetFields             For Each f As System.Reflection.FieldInfo In fieldInfos                 If f.IsLiteral Then                    MsgBox(f.Name & " : " & CType(f.GetValue(Nothing), Integer) & vbCrLf)                End If     Next