How do I change the type of an enum?

Question

By default, C# enums are stored as integers. I'd like to make it a short instead. Is there a way to do this?

Answer 1

sure, this can be done, but it has to be an integral type ( byte, short, int, etc.) except char...

enum myEnum : short
{
    FirstValue = 0,
};

here is the MSDN docs

Answer 2

Like this:

enum MyEnum : short
{
  ...
}