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            ...
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