C# underlying types of enums

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Published on 2010-04-16T04:13:21Z Indexed on 2010/04/16 4:23 UTC
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What is the point of having

enum SomeEnum : byte // <----
{
  SomeValue = 0x01,
  ...
}

when you have to make a cast just to assign it to the same type of variable as the enums underlying type?

byte b = (byte)SomeEnum.SomeValue;

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