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: 
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](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/sbbt4032(VS.71).aspx) is the MSDN docs
Like this:

```
enum MyEnum : short
{
  ...
}

```