I have a enum class called Gender and I have values in this like

public enum GENDER
{
    MALE = 1,
    FAMALE = 2,
    OTHERS = 3,
}

and in my business object I just created a property for this like

public GENDER Gender
    {
        get
        { 
            return gender; 
        }
        set 
        {
            gender = value; 
        }
     }

in my database its in type integer. For this I tried to assign the Gender value in the add function by its name Gender. but its showing error. Is it possible to cast the enum to integer so that it'll get the value automatically.

can anyone help me out here....