Month Name in c# (August)

[sck10]

Hello,

What I am trying to do is get the string(August) from:
hdnMonth.Value = DateTime.Now.Month.ToString();

Does c# have a function like the vb function "MonthName" ?
hdnMonth.Value = CType(MonthName(Month(Now())), String)

Thanks, sck10

 

[Laurent Bugnion]

Hi,

Hello,

What I am trying to do is get the string(August) from:
hdnMonth.Value = DateTime.Now.Month.ToString();

Does c# have a function like the vb function "MonthName" ?
hdnMonth.Value = CType(MonthName(Month(Now())), String)

Thanks, sck10

You don't say in which culture, so I am going to assume you want it in
the current culture:

string monthName
= CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.DateTimeFormat.GetMonth(
DateTime.Now.Month );

Note that with GetMonth, 1 returns January and not 0 like you would have
expected.

Note also that GetMonth can accept 1 to 13, with 13 returning an empty
string.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...ndatetimeformatinfoclassgetmonthnametopic.asp

HTH,
Laurent

 

[Mark Rae]

What I am trying to do is get the string(August) from:
hdnMonth.Value = DateTime.Now.Month.ToString();

Does c# have a function like the vb function "MonthName" ?
hdnMonth.Value = CType(MonthName(Month(Now())), String)

Easy as pie...

string strMonth = DateTime.Now.ToString("MMMM");

 

[Steven Cheng[MSFT]]

Thanks for Laurent and Mark's informative input.

Hi Steve,

As Mark has mentioned, as simple way to get the long month name of the date
is use the DateTime object ToString method and supply the "MMMM" format
string. Also, the below statement will only return the month name
associated with the current thread's CultureInfo

Response.Write("<br/>" + date.ToString("MMMM"));

if you want to return the culture-neutral (english) month name, you can
also supply the "InvariantCulture" formatter info.

Response.Write("<br/>" + date.ToString("MMMM",
CultureInfo.InvariantCulture));

Here are some useful info about common date/time formatting in .net
framework:

#Custom DateTime Format Strings
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/cpguide/html/cpconcustomdatetimeform
atstrings.asp?frame=true

#Standard DateTime Format Strings
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/cpguide/html/cpconstandarddatetimefo
rmatstrings.asp?frame=true

Hope this also helps.

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead



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[sck10]

Hi Steven,

Thanks for the links. Appreciate it...

 

[kaverao]

CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.DateTimeFormat.MonthNam es.GetValue(InvoiceDate.Month )

this code works for me. Thanks. CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.DateTimeFormat.MonthNames.GetValue(InvoiceDate.Month ).ToString()