System.MissingMemberException: The public member description for the type was not found

I have the following code in VB.NET since some years, and it worked fine:

Public Enum eAussendienstlerVermittler
    <Description("Undefined")> Undefined = 0
    <Description("Jack")> Jack = 1
    <Description("John")> John = 2
    <Description("Tom")> Tom = 3
    <Description("Martha")> Martha = 4
End Enum


    For Each e In System.Enum.GetValues(GetType(eAussendienstlerVermittler))

        Dim nItem As iGDropDownListItem
        nItem = New iGDropDownListItem

        nItem.Value = CInt(CType(e, Integer))
        nItem.Text = e.Description 'Raises error 

        _DropDownListAußendienstler.Items.Add(nItem)

    Next

Now I did something that I am not aware of, and I get the error

"System.MissingMemberException: The public member description for the type eAussendienstlerVermittler was not found."

in the first

nItem.Text = e.Description

What may I have done to cause this error?

Thank you!

CType(e, Integer) already is an Integer, so there is no need to convert it a second time.

it is a misconception of enum types as the name of each elements isn't description but the name it self for example

So when you loopß over all values, you get the name like jack as node, which you can access by converting ot to string

So your code would look like

For Each e As eAussendienstlerVermittler In System.Enum.GetValues(GetType(eAussendienstlerVermittler))

    Dim nItem As iGDropDownListItem
    nItem = New iGDropDownListItem

    nItem.Value = CType(e, Integer)
    nItem.Text = e.ToString

    _DropDownListAußendienstler.Items.Add(nItem)

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