Entity Framework 5 introduced support for Enum’s amongst other
new features. This was a long awaited feature by the
community.To learn how enums work with entity framework, how can
you code them, how to use them, how they are represented in the
database, head over to my Explain ENUM usage in EF5 on my
programming interviews blog
(http://www.programminginterviews.info/2013/03/Entity-Framework-
Interview-Question-Explain-ENUM-usage-in-EF5.html ).