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Topic: Dates

Posted By: karp13
Subject: Dates
Date Posted: 11 April 2003 at 1:28pm

How would you show the current month name in a label control. I also need to show last month and 2 months ago. 3 different controls.

I know it has to be easy, but I just can't seem to figure it out for .net.

Thanks for the help

Karp13

Replies:

Posted By: xdotnet
Date Posted: 11 April 2003 at 1:52pm

use MonthName with Now.Month:

lblThisMonthName.Text = MonthName(Now.Month)

lblLastMonthName.Text = MonthName(Now.Month - 1)

Posted By: karp13
Date Posted: 11 April 2003 at 2:07pm

That's great! Thank You

Where can I find this information? I would like to learn more about date formatting and such.

Posted By: xdotnet
Date Posted: 11 April 2003 at 3:17pm

the code i give you is old VB, forget it, it's not a good practice with asp.net. this one is for asp.net:

lblThisMonthName.Text = Now.ToString("MMMM")
lblLastMonthName.Text = Now.AddMonths(-1).ToString("MMMM")

here is 2 links to get some infos about date formatting

DateTimeFormatInfo Class:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfsystemglobalizationdatetimeformatinfoclasstopic.asp - http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfsystemglobalizationdatetimeformatinfoclasstopic.asp

DateTimeFormatInfo.MonthNames Property:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfsystemglobalizationdatetimeformatinfoclassmonthnamestopic.asp - http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfsystemglobalizationdatetimeformatinfoclassmonthnamestopic.asp

Also you can download the "Class Browser" who come for free with web matrix where you can get properties, methods etc... for each class.