I ran across a great post from Alex James on how to fake enums in EF4.  I’ve had a great deal of experience using enums with LINQ to SQL (via Plinqo), and it’s nice to know how to do it in EF, while waiting for the feature to come out-of-the-box in a future version. 😉

http://blogs.msdn.com/alexj/archive/2009/06/05/tip-23-how-to-fake-enums-in-ef-4.aspx

Enjoy.