Enum is Reference Type or Value Type?

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System.Enum is a reference type, but any specific enum type is a value type. In the same way, System.ValueType is a reference type, but all types inheriting from it (other than System.Enum) are value types.

So if you have an enum Foo and you want a nullable property, you need the property type to be Foo?.

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