Simple Date question

risu · November 12th, 2003, 11:43 AM

<edit>Edited to remove the offensive line which was originally meant to be a little bit humourous. I realize that it may be lost in posting. I did do a search using "vb.net" "month name" and variations on that with no luck. I did not mean to imply that anyone else's time was worth being wasted. I just hit a brick wall mentally and was hoping that someone on this board had the solution.</end edit>

I want to get the string name for the current month or of any date variable actually.

Code:

Now().Month.ToString

Just returns the integer value. I could write a simple case subroutine to look at the integer and return the name but I'm hoping that there is a method or property already out there.

Thanks,
Risu

Imar · November 12th, 2003, 11:50 AM

Right, so because you're too lazy to find out stuff yourself, you expect us to waste our time instead and do your work. Yeah, that makes sense, and I am sure it will get you really far.... ;)

Cheers,

Imar

P.S. Google will give you the answer in 1.5 seconds, less time than it takes the time to post your question here.

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sal · November 12th, 2003, 12:00 PM

Oh, I know how to do that . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Sal

Imar · November 12th, 2003, 12:12 PM

Well, don't bother telling us; We may be too lazy to read this post after all.... ;)

Imar

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risu · November 12th, 2003, 12:15 PM

Fair enough....
ever have one of those moments you just wish you could take back...

Thanks,
Risu

Hal Levy · November 12th, 2003, 12:25 PM

Being the moderator of the forum I can delete the thread if you wish-- that's as close to taking it back I can do for you :)

Hal Levy
Web Developer, PDI Inc.

NOT a Wiley/Wrox Employee

risu · November 12th, 2003, 12:27 PM

I hope that this will somewhat makeup for my transgressions.

Code:

Now().ToString("MMM")

I was looking in the wrong place. I kept working off the Month property. I never even realized that some ToString functions have a format parameter. Thank you MSDN

Thanks,
Risu

Imar · November 12th, 2003, 12:43 PM

LOL ;)

I believe this is indeed the right way to do it as it will yield CLR compliant code. There is also an alternative in the VisualBasic namespace:

Microsoft.VisualBasic.DateAndTime.MonthName(11)

Cheers,

Imar

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Everyone is unique, except for me.